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authorJan Pokorný <jpokorny@redhat.com>2013-05-24 17:14:41 +0200
committerJan Pokorný <jpokorny@redhat.com>2013-05-24 17:14:41 +0200
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Add 03-tar-exclude-from.txt (tar --exclude-from file format)
Signed-off-by: Jan Pokorný <jpokorny@redhat.com>
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+Examples of the file passed in --exclude-from option to tar:
+
+> ./temp-files # exclude top-level directory entirely
+> ./temp-files/ # BAD: does nothing
+> /temp-files # BAD: does nothing
+> ./temp-files/* # exclude directory contents; include directory
+> temp-files # exclude anything named "temp-files"
+> generated-* # exclude anything beginning with "generated-"
+> *.iso # exclude ISO files
+> proxy/local/cache # exclude "cache" in dir "local" in "proxy"
+
+[http://wiki.zmanda.com/man/amgtar.8.html#idp57458272]