1 1 6 Choosing Files and Names for 'tar' 1 ************************************ 1 1 Certain options to 'tar' enable you to specify a name for your archive. 1 Other options let you decide which files to include or exclude from the 1 archive, based on when or whether files were modified, whether the file 1 names do or don't match specified patterns, or whether files are in 1 specified directories. 1 1 This chapter discusses these options in detail. 1
1 · file Choosing the Archive's Name · Selecting Archive Members · files Reading Names from a File · exclude Excluding Some Files · wildcards Wildcards Patterns and Matching · quoting styles Ways of Quoting Special Characters in Names · transform Modifying File and Member Names · after Operating Only on New Files · recurse Descending into Directories · one Crossing File System Boundaries 1