tar: Howto Exclude or Include Files

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

Recently I’ve had a little problem. I’ve needed to create an archive from some source directories but I’ve not needed to add in the archive some subdirectorives. I’ve made a quick search in Google and found an article “Telling tar Which Files to Exclude or Include”. Here is a short example:

$ find videoguide/ ! -type [...]