tar question: Solved

[Matt Minnis]

Thanks All!

 > Here is my command line:
> >          @tar -zcvf $(TARBALL) Makefile *.c *.h ./tracer/* \
> >             License Readme version 
> ./monitor/*  --exclude=./monitor/monitor.o
>
>Use the following instead:
>
>     tar -zcvf $(TARBALL) Makefile *.c *.h ./tracer/* \
>         License Readme version ./monitor --exclude=./monitor/monitor.o
>                                         ^
>                                         +--- see below
>
>Note that there is no "/*" after "./monitor" above.

This worked.

>You are explicitly specifying "./monitor/monitor.o" on the commandline
>via "./monitor/*", so the exclude option is being ignored.  Hence, the
>guess in my previous email was correct.

I didn't realize that dir/* explicitly listed the files into the command 
line.  Thinking about it though, this does make sense.

Who is incharge of documentation?  Perhaps this type of example could help 
others down the road.

Thanks,

Matt Minnis
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