Hi all, seems as if the leading / make other problems beside of updating an archive (see some dayes ago on this list): If you want to exclude certain directories from beeing stored in an archive, you MUST NOT use the ~-wildcard in the file which describes the not-to-archive-files. $ tar -cvf some.tar -X nobak.txt somepath will work if nobak.txt reads like: ---- snip ---- *.iso home/*/.opera/cache4 home/*/.mozilla/temp home/*/tmp reads like ---- snap ---- But it will fail, if nobak.txt is like: ---- snip ---- *.iso ~/.opera/cache4 ~/home/*/.mozilla/temp ~/home/*/tmp ---- snap ---- The reason may be, that ~ translates to /home/username which is different from home/username (see the missing Slash!). tar removes the leading slash by default, in order to have a relative path. Bye, Ingo. -- Tel +43-1-5955766 Mobil +43-664-1438418 Web http://ingo.netomania.at/ ------------------------------------------- Ihr und Wir -- Bino na Biso http://ingo.netomania.at/bnb/de/index.html -------------------------------------------- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
