Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm tired of beating what's left of my
brains on what's left of my desk... Please, Please, Please, private email
replies only.
Non-essential info: I'm writing a selective backup program in Perl to read
a config file, use the info to create a list of directories to be backed
up, then give that listing to tar to back up the information.
Essential info: Problem is, I have directories that I want backed up, but
with subdirectories that I *don't* want backed up; yet when I feed the list
of dir's to tar, it recursively backs up the dir's anyway.
Is there a way (program switch, special version of tar, anything...) to
tell tar to not recurse subdirectories, or do I need to write a sub-program
that extracts each individual filename?
Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided.
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
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disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Mon Sep 13 1999 - 19:12:01 BST