Friday, September 11, 2009

Excluding a directory while doing zip in linux

1) If you want to exclude a single directory.

tar -cvf /home/Virtualhosts/foostor.zip /home/Virtualhosts/foo --exclude "/home/Virtualhosts/foo/yourdirectory"

2) If you want to exclude multiple directories .

tar -cvf /home/Virtualhosts/foostor.zip /home/Virtualhosts/foo --exclude "/home/Virtualhosts/foo/yourdirectory1" --exclude "/home/Virtualhosts/foo/yourdirectory2" --exclude "/home/Virtualhosts/foo/yourdirectory3"

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posted by adityachandra @ 1:19 PM,


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