[SLL] simple tar question, why doesn't it work?

[greg smythe]

Thanks, that worked great!


Greg

On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 taliesin at speakeasy.org wrote:

> greg smythe writes:
> 
> >Hello --
> >
> >Trying to exclude a directory from my tar backup, this is what I get:
> >
> >
> >[root at linux cron.daily]# tar -cf --exclude /home/greg /scratch/backup/backup
> >.tar /etc /home
> >tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
> >tar: /etc/cron.daily/--exclude is the archive; not dumped
> >
> 
> You've got an ordering problem; any argument group with "f" in it is going
> to take the NEXT token on the command line as the file to use as the
> archive.  Separate things out like this:
> 
> tar -c --exclude /home/greg -f /scratch/backup/backup.tar /etc /home
> 
> That will get you "tar everything in /etc/ and /home/ except /home/greg
> into /scratch/backup/backup.tar" instead of "tar /scratch/backup/backup.tar,
> /etc/, and /home/ into the file "--exclude" in the current directory"...
> which is what poor getopt() thought you were trying to say.  The darn thing
> ain't that smart.  :(
> 
> -- Glenn
> "It really was the SISO rule, until the nice nellies came along and said you
> can't do that, it's got to be Garbage In, Garbage Out..." -- gus Baird (RIP)
> 
> 


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