From 643e3f244170eb0edcdcb237c45bb8756785e047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Poznyakoff Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:33:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update documentation of --exclude-tag --- doc/tar.texi | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index f835b84..b4bb450 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -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 @menu -- 2.44.0