[Help-tar] Need specifying path for exclude.

[Randy Powers]

First here is the directory structure:

test/

test/subtest1/

test/subtest1/subtest11.xml

test/subtest1/subtest12.xml

test/subtest1/subtest13.xml

test/subtest1/subtest2/

test/subtest1/subtest2/subtest21.xml

test/subtest1/subtest2/subtest22.xml

test/subtest1/subtest2/subtest23.xml

test/subtest2/

test/subtest2/subtest21.xml

test/subtest2/subtest22.xml

test/subtest2/subtest23.xml

test/subtest3/

test/subtest3/subtest31.xml

test/subtest3/subtest32.xml

test/subtest3/subtest33.xml

test/test1.xml

test/test2.xml

test/test3.xml

I want to archive test. I want to exclude the directory test/subtest1/subtest2

I have tried every combination of this command that I can think of and nothing has worked.

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude=test/subtest1/subtest2

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude=test/subtest1/subtest2/

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude=subtest1/subtest2

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude=subtest1/subtest2/

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude="test/subtest1/subtest2"

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude="test/subtest1/subtest2/"

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude="subtest1/subtest2"

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude="subtest1/subtest2/"

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude='test/subtest1/subtest2'

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude='test/subtest1/subtest2/'

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude='subtest1/subtest2'

tar -cvf test.tar test --exclude='subtest1/subtest2/'

tar -cvf test.tar --exclude=test/subtest1/subtest2 test

.... all the same cases as above

tar -c -v --exclude=test/subtest1/subtest2 test -f test.tar

.... all the same cases as above

I have also tried removing the "=" and converting to all absolute paths. Everything has produced the exact same result. The test/subtest1/subtest2 is archived.

I am using GNU tar on Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Here is the --version result:

tar (GNU tar) 1.13

Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

Many years ago I used tar to create archives using excludes. I have tried repeating what I did back then but got the same result.

Thanks,

Randy Powers