tar question

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Matt Minnis <mminnis@prefres.com> wrote:
> I am trying to make a tar volume & exclude the *.o & *.x files.
> 
> per tar --help:
> <snip>
> --exclude=PATTERN        exclude files, given as a globbing PATTERN
> <snip>
> 
> So I have added --exclude=*.o --exclude=*.x
> to the commandline.
> 
> This still gets the o & x files.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  Is there a problem with cygwin causing this?
> 

Quote the *.  I.E. --exclude=\*.o

Cheers,

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