[thelist] Linux Tar Question

[Charlie Llewellin]

I think you have to escape the "-"
try rm \-\-exclude=stats

the = might be a problem, too.

Charlie
I saw this on Redhat.com, so a search there might bring up more info.
----- Original Message -----
From: "CDitty" <mail at redhotsweeps.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Linux Tar Question


> Looks like you are correct.  I saw the errors and didn't think to look and
> see the output.  Do you know how I can get rid of the messages that are
> returned?
>
> Also, it seems that in my experimentation, that I created a file called
> --exclude=stats.  Any idea on how to delete it?  I tried rm -f
> "--exclude=stats", rm -f '--exclude=stats'.  Everytime, unknown option.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
>
> chris
>
> At 09:50 AM 1/9/01, you wrote:
> >Are you sure that this didn't work?  Do a 'tar tf' on your file.  The
> >two messages look like warnings.   The first is telling you that tar
> >stripped off the leading / and the second is telling you that while
> >tar'ing everything together, it found the file test.tar and realize
> >that it was the tar archive itself so skipped it.
> >
> >Dean
> >
> >
> >CDitty writes:
> >
> > > I am writing a small php script to create a backup of my web server.
Can
> > > anyone tell me a way (if possible) to exclude directories using tar?
I
> > > have tried using the following commands, but they give errors.
> > >
> > > tar -cf --exclude=stats /home/httpd/html/galore/test.tar
> > > /home/httpd/html/galore/
> > > tar --exclude=stats -cf /home/httpd/html/galore/test.tar
> > > /home/httpd/html/galore/
> > >
> > > This is the error I get.
> > > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> > > tar: /home/httpd/html/galore/test.tar: file is the archive; not dumped
> >
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