Re: [Bug-tar] How to exclude multiple patterns?

[Joerg Schilling]

"Dustin J. Mitchell" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure that I can collapse multiple exclude patterns into one
> > in a previous version of tar. Did tar get changed in the last a few
> > years on this aspect?
>
> I suspect what had happend is that your shell had interpreted the
> {..,..} during word expansion:
>   --exclude=*.o --exclude=.*.sw? --exclude=.*.d
> but not expanded teh wildcards, because nothing matched those glob
> expressions.  I'm assuming you meant to use glob expressions -- that
> is, .*.sw? will match
>   .foo.swf
>   .bar.swx
> but not
>   foo.swf
>   foo.sw
>
> The problem is, if you're in a directory where the shell finds files
> that match the globs, then it expands them all the way, so you get
>   --exclude=foo.o --exclude=.foo.swf --exclude=.foo.d

If your shell behaves this way, it is time to replace it by a working shell.

Jörg

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