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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tar help
Keywords: tar, SUN unix 4.2
Message-ID: <2822@solo10.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 30 Jun 89 16:21:00 GMT
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Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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gefuchs@goedel.uucp (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
\suppose i want to tar an entire accound into a tar file named
\GUGU.tar
\
\then i type (at the ~ directory)
\	tar cvf GUGU.tar .
\
\but after sometime tar tars GUGU.tar recorsively upon itself,
\now i have tried all kinds of combinations with the X option for
\tar but to no avail, i guess i cannot milk the correct command out of
\the man pages

The man pages are somewhat unclear indeed.
Commands:

	$ cat > excluded
	./excluded
	./GUGU.tar
	$ tar cvfX GUGU.tar excluded .
or
	$ tar cvXf excluded GUGU.tar .

Conclusively: the first file is for the first option (that needs a file)
and so on.
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