On Mon, 5 May 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > I want to tar -zcvf all the data in /home, except what's contained in > /home/<somedir>. Any ideas how to do that? tar has an --exclude switch. Check the man page. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman netllama at linux-sxs.org Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com