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From: bbausch@hpbbse.HP.COM (Bernd Bausch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tar help
Message-ID: <16760001@hpbbse.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Jul 89 18:09:44 GMT
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Organization: HP Boeblingen, Germany
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> 
> 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
> 

	If there is no filename starting with "." in ~, do

	tar cvf .GUGU.tar *.

	If there is no filename starting with "Y" in ~, do

	tar cvf YGUGU.tar [!Y]*

	and so on...


	Bernd.