Martin Boening in <fpk1qe$fpk$02$1@news.t-online.com> :

> The --exclude can only take one pattern, IIRC. So you might try to find a
> pattern that matches everything you want to exclude, have several
> --exclude options on the command line or create a file containing all
> exclude patterns, on per line, and then exclude from that:
> tar cvf test.tar --exclude-from=patternfile etc

Thank you very much, this was what i was looking for.

Peter

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