[Bug-tar] Re: Why I can not exclude .*.*.swp files?

[Nathan Stratton Treadway]

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 20:31:45 -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
> Maybe this is an easy question. But I can not exclude .*.*.swp file in
> the resulted tar.gz file. Could you please let me know how to do it
> correctly?
> 
> $ tar czvf ../trial/`basename $PWD`.tar.gz ../`basename $PWD`
> --exclude={.*.*.swp}
> tar: Removing leading `../' from member names
> ../current_diretory/
> ../current_diretory/.main.sh.swp
> ../current_diretory/main.sh

Off hand, I'd guess it's because you have "{" and "}" characters in your
exclude pattern; probably you want to say 
  --exclude='.*.*.swp'
instead (though I'm wondering if you wouldn't want to just exclude all
'.*.swp' files, in case there's a .README.swp file or whatever).

You can find some examples of using the --exclude= option at:
  http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/exclude.html#SEC108

                                                        Nathan

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