Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.29 bug: tar ignores --exclude option

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 26/05/16 09:05, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> The --exclude option is position-sensitive, which means it applies to
> any arguments or options appearing after it in the command line.
> Therefore the correct tar invocation is:
>    tar zcvvfXT - excludes includes
> Please see 3.4.4 "Position-Sensitive Options"[1], for details.
> Regards,
> Sergey
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_22.html

Thanks very much Sergey. I can confirm that changing the order of the 
excludes and includes, as you indicated above, gives me the desired 
behaviour with tar 1.29:

$ tar zcvvfXT - excludes includes > /dev/null
drwxrwx--- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:39 base/
drwxrwx--- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-1/
-rw-rw---- ben/ben           0 2016-05-21 14:40 base/dir-1/file-1

Kind regards,

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