On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:14 -0500, linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:49, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > =>Delete the directory or move it then do your tar ball. > > > > What a horrible answer! > > There is nothing horrible about my answer. It did not tell > him what he wanted to know about excluding but it did tell > him how to accomplish his objective, because he does not > want to save that tmp directory anyway. > I am sorry about this but let me answer a related question which you may be interested in. That is how do you untar a file into an existing directory but not overwrite files with the same name? Use the -k option of tar. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
