I'm working on doing a pretty straightforward tar for a site, but there's a wrinkle. Here's the file structure of the site:
...
files/
images/
images/visitors/
...
logs/
...
visitors/
Here's the problem: I want to exclude all the files in the main visitors/ directory, but I want all the files in the images/visitors/ directory to be included in the tarball.
I've been trying tar c --exclude-from='excludeList' with the following as the content of "excludeList":
excludeList
files/
visitors/
Unfortunately, since the files in images/visitors/ match the visitors/ pattern, they're excluded, too. In a perfect world, I could go regex with something like this:
excludeList
files/
^visitors/
But that doesn't work. Is there any way to make this work, either straight through tar or with another sort of pattern-matching command?
