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@@ -6495,13 +6495,10 @@ Any directory that contains this file will be excluded from the dump.
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@opindex exclude-tag
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@item --exclude-tag=@var{file}
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Causes @command{tar} to ignore directories containing @var{file}.
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+Multiple @option{--exclude-tag} options can be given.
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@end table
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-You can specify as many exclusion tags as you like.
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-
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-Notice, that when speaking about ``excluding the directory'' we mean
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-that the files and subdirectories it contains will not get into the
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-archive, while the entry for the directory itself will, e.g.:
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+For example:
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@smallexample
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$ @kbd{find dir}
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@@ -6510,17 +6507,15 @@ dir/blues
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dir/jazz
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dir/folk
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dir/folk/tagfile
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-$ @kbd{tar -cf archive.tar --extract-tag=tagfile -v}
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+$ @kbd{tar -cf archive.tar --exclude-tag=tagfile -v}
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dir/
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dir/blues
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dir/jazz
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-dir/folk/
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./tar: dir/folk/: contains a cache directory tag tagfile; not dumped
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$ @kbd{tar -tf archive.tar}
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dir/
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dir/blues
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dir/jazz
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-dir/folk/
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@end smallexample
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