Bug 815099

Summary:	tar does not care about the "exclude=PATTERN" option
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John Mev <zikamev>
Component:	tar	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	kdudka, ovasik, praiskup, zikamev
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Description John Mev 2012-04-22 13:59:03 UTC

Description of problem:

tar does not care about the "exclude=PATTERN" option

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

tar-1.26-2.fc15.i686

How reproducible:

execute tar cvf file.tar --exclude=home/user/movies/

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

includes the files under home/user/movies/   in the archive

Expected results:

would exclude them

Additional info:

Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2012-04-22 15:48:27 UTC

Did you try to remove the trailing slash from your --exclude?

Comment 2 John Mev 2012-04-23 09:15:28 UTC

No.

I tried:

 --exclude=home/user/movies/
 --exclude=home/user/movies/*

I'll try again without the last slash.

Comment 3 John Mev 2012-04-23 16:23:29 UTC

Without the last slash, it works just fine.

Il would be a good idea to tell it in the man pages.

Comment 4 Ondrej Vasik 2012-04-23 16:34:45 UTC

Thanks for confirmation. Actually, GNU tar upstream doesn't maintain man pages - it only maintains info documentation - tar man pages are generated from --help output - and they are intended to be as compact as possible. In info documentation exclude section is quite detailed.

Comment 5 John Mev 2012-05-18 10:55:25 UTC

Finally tried again today and I confirm that it does not work with all options, with or without the last slash, with or without quotes.

Finally I was wrong.
I just tried --exclude="*.avi* as in the info pages and there is no change.

Comment 6 John Mev 2012-05-18 10:57:53 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Finally tried again today and I confirm that it does not work with all options,
> with or without the last slash, with or without quotes.
> 
> Finally I was wrong.
> I just tried --exclude="*.avi* as in the info pages and there is no change.

Finally I found the way

I apologize