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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tar help
Message-ID: <651@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jul 89 14:27:29 GMT
References: <2822@solo10.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <2822@solo10.cs.vu.nl>, by maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath):
X> gefuchs@goedel.uucp (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
X> \suppose i want to tar an entire accound into a tar file named
X> \GUGU.tar
X> \then i type (at the ~ directory)
X> \	tar cvf GUGU.tar .
X> \
> \but after sometime tar tars GUGU.tar recorsively upon itself,
> 	$ cat > excluded
> 	./excluded
> 	./GUGU.tar
> 	$ tar cvfX GUGU.tar excluded .

Overkill.
	$ tar -cvpf /usr/tmp/GUGU.tar .

will do what was required.  The problem is to make sure the tar
file is not created in a place that tar is going to find when it
is archiving.

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