Re: [Bug-tar] Excluding directories based on content

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Sergey Poznyakoff (address@hidden) wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Please try the included patch. It adds new option --exclude-tag=FILE.
> The invocation `tar -c --exclude-tag=FILE' will exclude from the dump
> the directories that contain FILE.
> 
> Multiple --exclude-tag options accumulate.
> 
> The patch is against the CVS head, but it should apply to 1.16 cleanly.

Thank you! I hadn't expected you to work this quickly!

This looks like it works wonderfully; although I've only tried it
on a small subset of my typical data set (I tried the full dataset
but to /dev/null and that took 20minutes as against 7 hours
for my normal run, but I'll try a normal use of it tomorrow).

(For those asking how big this stuff is - well I'm not sure,
I started a find | wc -l about 10 mins ago and it hasn't finished - 
my guess is there are about 2M files on there of which about 50%
actually go into the tar.)

Thank you very much again!

Dave
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