[NTLUG:Discuss] tar --exclude doesn't

[Courtney Grimland]

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:46:45 -0500
kbrannen at gte.net wrote:

> 
> OK, I'm curious, what distro and what version of tar?
> 

[courtney at jupiter ~]$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13

I run LFS-ed boxen for all of my systems at home -- desktop, router,
and network server*.  In fact, this came about when I was going
through the 5.0 release candidate LFS book, and wanted to make a
backup image of the newly created system so I can always have
something to restore to.

*providing http, smtp/pop, dns, ftp, and smb