Re: File Exclusion

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:31:57AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
>> Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
>>> Or would you at least add the option to
>>> read a file list from a file or stdin (just like cpio does)?
>> You mean like "-T -" does?
> 
> I'm not sure, the man page says: "In c mode, tarsnap will read names
> to be archived from filename."
> 
> When this means, behave like cpio -o, that's exactly what I was
> looking for.

I haven't used cpio recently -- does it recurse into directories?  If
you don't want that, you'll want to pass the -n flag to Tarsnap as well.

Aside from that, it should be the same.

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Colin Percival
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