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Exclude several files or directories from tar

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It’s very useful to be able to exclude certain files or directories when using tar. Here’s how I did in Leopard:

tar czvf FILENAME.tgz --exclude={.svn,wiki*,static} FILES_OR_DIRS_TO_TAR

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Written by hgrimelid

August 9th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Posted in Shell

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