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Please advise, Thanks

Andrew

Quote:>I need to tar up a directory, but I want to omit certain
> files/sub-directory. How can I do it? In Solaris I can append
> in a ".Exclude" file, but I cant' find this option in AIX.

>Please advise, Thanks

>Andrew

Create a file of filenames that you want included in the tar
archive, one filename per line.  Then list the name of this
file after the -L option.  Tar will only archive exactly what
is listed.  Directories are not recursed.

Building the file of filenames isn't too difficult.  You can
use "find" to build a complete list and then edit the list
by hand.

find dir -print > list
vi list
tar -c -f tar.out -L list

If you need to automate this, you have several options.
You can pipe the list through "grep -v" or "egrep -v"
to take out lines you don't want.

find dir -print | grep -v skipdir > list

find dir -print | egrep -v 'skipdir|nogood' > list

You can get clever with find and have it omit files
you don't want.

find dir ! -name '*.old' -print > list

find dir \( \( -name skipdir -o -name nogood \) -prune \) \
  -o -print > list

For example, suppose you want to archive directory "dir" but
want to skip any file whose name ends with .old.  You could
do it like this:

find dir ! -name '*.old' > list

tar -c -f tar.out -L list