how to exclude a directory from extraction with "tar"?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Wed Apr 12 11:14:53 UTC 2006


  i've configured BB with all of the relevant options and what i'm
trying to do is extract the contents of a gzipped tarball, excluding a
top-level directory named "./meta".

  that directory is clearly there based on listing the contents of the
tarball, and i've tried the incantation:

  $ tar --exclude "./meta" -xvzf (tarball)

but i invariably get the "meta" directory extracted along with
everything else.  am i missing something?  thanks.

rday



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