Update documentation of --exclude-tag

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Sergey Poznyakoff
2006-12-07 14:33:30 +00:00
parent 6e75833cb7
commit 643e3f2441

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@@ -6495,13 +6495,10 @@ Any directory that contains this file will be excluded from the dump.
@opindex exclude-tag
@item --exclude-tag=@var{file}
Causes @command{tar} to ignore directories containing @var{file}.
Multiple @option{--exclude-tag} options can be given.
@end table
You can specify as many exclusion tags as you like.
Notice, that when speaking about ``excluding the directory'' we mean
that the files and subdirectories it contains will not get into the
archive, while the entry for the directory itself will, e.g.:
For example:
@smallexample
$ @kbd{find dir}
@@ -6510,17 +6507,15 @@ dir/blues
dir/jazz
dir/folk
dir/folk/tagfile
$ @kbd{tar -cf archive.tar --extract-tag=tagfile -v}
$ @kbd{tar -cf archive.tar --exclude-tag=tagfile -v}
dir/
dir/blues
dir/jazz
dir/folk/
./tar: dir/folk/: contains a cache directory tag tagfile; not dumped
$ @kbd{tar -tf archive.tar}
dir/
dir/blues
dir/jazz
dir/folk/
@end smallexample
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