in the tarpit -- cannot exclude cache

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> I've done a "touch /home/kevin/.cache/CACHEDIR.TAG" to mark the
>> directory I want to exclude, but it's not getting excluded.
>> The command runs as root, and the complete command line is
>>
>>     sudo tar --absolute-names --one-file-system --exclude-caches -czf
>> treat.home.manual-121011.tgz /home
>>
>> and changing the type of --exclude does not help.
>
> I'm not sure if it matters, but according to the man page on my 10.04
> machine the option would be "-exclude-caches" with only one "-" at the
> start.

Thanks.

That's the sort of thing that I could easily miss, but my 12.04 man
page uses two dashes for

     --exclude-caches
           exclude contents of directories containing CACHEDIR.TAG,

     --exclude-caches-all
           exclude directories containing CACHEDIR.TAG

     --exclude-caches-under
           exclude everything under directories containing CACHEDIR.TAG

And I would expect it to complain if I got it wrong.  With only one
dash, it complains
     tar: invalid option -- 'e'

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman

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