tar --exclude not working
Eric Blake
ericblake@comcast.net
Wed Feb 14 14:53:00 GMT 2007
> I'm using tar (GNU tar) 1.16.1 and have an archive with the following entries.
> Files/report1.html
> Files/report2.html
> Files/report3.html
> Files/report4.html
> D:/Bkp/sol/
> D:/Bkp/sol/test1.pl
> D:/Bkp/sol/test2.pl
> D:/Bkp/sol/test3.pl
>
> Whenever, I try to exclude files starting with "D:/" its not working
> as expected.
Tar has special treatment of command-line arguments with colons,
trying to treat it as a path to a remote machine. Tar archives created
with drive letters are inherently non-portable, and under cygwin, you
should create tar archives using a POSIX name such as /cygdrive/d
rather than d:/ (or whatever you mount your cygdrive as).
>
> Is this a bug? Can it be worked atound?
I have done nothing in this regards that is cygwin-specific. If it is
a bug, then it is an upstream one. But more likely, it is merely a
matter of your using drive letters when tar tries to interpret them
as remote machine names.
--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin tar maintainer
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