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I want to make a tarball of a directory, but excluding all files that end with .foo, except for one specific file. This excludes all files with .foo as ending:



tar czf "$nameTarball" dir/ --exclude '*.foo'


What I'm missing is some sort of --include option. Does it exist?
I'm using GNU tar 1.23.






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    I want to make a tarball of a directory, but excluding all files that end with .foo, except for one specific file. This excludes all files with .foo as ending:



    tar czf "$nameTarball" dir/ --exclude '*.foo'


    What I'm missing is some sort of --include option. Does it exist?
    I'm using GNU tar 1.23.






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      I want to make a tarball of a directory, but excluding all files that end with .foo, except for one specific file. This excludes all files with .foo as ending:



      tar czf "$nameTarball" dir/ --exclude '*.foo'


      What I'm missing is some sort of --include option. Does it exist?
      I'm using GNU tar 1.23.






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      I want to make a tarball of a directory, but excluding all files that end with .foo, except for one specific file. This excludes all files with .foo as ending:



      tar czf "$nameTarball" dir/ --exclude '*.foo'


      What I'm missing is some sort of --include option. Does it exist?
      I'm using GNU tar 1.23.






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          There is no --include-style option in GNU tar as far as I’m aware.



          In GNU tar, later versions (starting with 1.29) treat --exclude and other filename-selection options in a position-sensitive fashion, so they only affects arguments after them on the command line. So you can include files by naming them before the --exclude option:



          tar czf "$nameTarball" dir/specific.foo --exclude '*.foo' dir/





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          • I installed a newer version of tar and it works now. Thanks! (I wonder why certain distros use tar that is from 2010!)
            – pfnuesel
            Aug 31 at 13:34










          • A typical tar implementation that is part of an operating system distro supports -I. This has been added to BSD tar (not bsdtar) in the late 1980s. But If a filename is in the -X file as well, itis excluded. Note that --exclude is a non-portable vendor unique GNU tar extension.
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            Aug 31 at 13:59










          • @schily GNU tar supports both -T (equivalent to BSD’s -I, where -T also works) and -X, but as you imply they’re not helpful in this situation since the exclusions given by -X have greater precedence than the files given by -T.
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          There is no --include-style option in GNU tar as far as I’m aware.



          In GNU tar, later versions (starting with 1.29) treat --exclude and other filename-selection options in a position-sensitive fashion, so they only affects arguments after them on the command line. So you can include files by naming them before the --exclude option:



          tar czf "$nameTarball" dir/specific.foo --exclude '*.foo' dir/





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          • I installed a newer version of tar and it works now. Thanks! (I wonder why certain distros use tar that is from 2010!)
            – pfnuesel
            Aug 31 at 13:34










          • A typical tar implementation that is part of an operating system distro supports -I. This has been added to BSD tar (not bsdtar) in the late 1980s. But If a filename is in the -X file as well, itis excluded. Note that --exclude is a non-portable vendor unique GNU tar extension.
            – schily
            Aug 31 at 13:59










          • @schily GNU tar supports both -T (equivalent to BSD’s -I, where -T also works) and -X, but as you imply they’re not helpful in this situation since the exclusions given by -X have greater precedence than the files given by -T.
            – Stephen Kitt
            Aug 31 at 14:31














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          There is no --include-style option in GNU tar as far as I’m aware.



          In GNU tar, later versions (starting with 1.29) treat --exclude and other filename-selection options in a position-sensitive fashion, so they only affects arguments after them on the command line. So you can include files by naming them before the --exclude option:



          tar czf "$nameTarball" dir/specific.foo --exclude '*.foo' dir/





          share|improve this answer






















          • I installed a newer version of tar and it works now. Thanks! (I wonder why certain distros use tar that is from 2010!)
            – pfnuesel
            Aug 31 at 13:34










          • A typical tar implementation that is part of an operating system distro supports -I. This has been added to BSD tar (not bsdtar) in the late 1980s. But If a filename is in the -X file as well, itis excluded. Note that --exclude is a non-portable vendor unique GNU tar extension.
            – schily
            Aug 31 at 13:59










          • @schily GNU tar supports both -T (equivalent to BSD’s -I, where -T also works) and -X, but as you imply they’re not helpful in this situation since the exclusions given by -X have greater precedence than the files given by -T.
            – Stephen Kitt
            Aug 31 at 14:31












          up vote
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          up vote
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          There is no --include-style option in GNU tar as far as I’m aware.



          In GNU tar, later versions (starting with 1.29) treat --exclude and other filename-selection options in a position-sensitive fashion, so they only affects arguments after them on the command line. So you can include files by naming them before the --exclude option:



          tar czf "$nameTarball" dir/specific.foo --exclude '*.foo' dir/





          share|improve this answer














          There is no --include-style option in GNU tar as far as I’m aware.



          In GNU tar, later versions (starting with 1.29) treat --exclude and other filename-selection options in a position-sensitive fashion, so they only affects arguments after them on the command line. So you can include files by naming them before the --exclude option:



          tar czf "$nameTarball" dir/specific.foo --exclude '*.foo' dir/






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          • I installed a newer version of tar and it works now. Thanks! (I wonder why certain distros use tar that is from 2010!)
            – pfnuesel
            Aug 31 at 13:34










          • A typical tar implementation that is part of an operating system distro supports -I. This has been added to BSD tar (not bsdtar) in the late 1980s. But If a filename is in the -X file as well, itis excluded. Note that --exclude is a non-portable vendor unique GNU tar extension.
            – schily
            Aug 31 at 13:59










          • @schily GNU tar supports both -T (equivalent to BSD’s -I, where -T also works) and -X, but as you imply they’re not helpful in this situation since the exclusions given by -X have greater precedence than the files given by -T.
            – Stephen Kitt
            Aug 31 at 14:31
















          • I installed a newer version of tar and it works now. Thanks! (I wonder why certain distros use tar that is from 2010!)
            – pfnuesel
            Aug 31 at 13:34










          • A typical tar implementation that is part of an operating system distro supports -I. This has been added to BSD tar (not bsdtar) in the late 1980s. But If a filename is in the -X file as well, itis excluded. Note that --exclude is a non-portable vendor unique GNU tar extension.
            – schily
            Aug 31 at 13:59










          • @schily GNU tar supports both -T (equivalent to BSD’s -I, where -T also works) and -X, but as you imply they’re not helpful in this situation since the exclusions given by -X have greater precedence than the files given by -T.
            – Stephen Kitt
            Aug 31 at 14:31















          I installed a newer version of tar and it works now. Thanks! (I wonder why certain distros use tar that is from 2010!)
          – pfnuesel
          Aug 31 at 13:34




          I installed a newer version of tar and it works now. Thanks! (I wonder why certain distros use tar that is from 2010!)
          – pfnuesel
          Aug 31 at 13:34












          A typical tar implementation that is part of an operating system distro supports -I. This has been added to BSD tar (not bsdtar) in the late 1980s. But If a filename is in the -X file as well, itis excluded. Note that --exclude is a non-portable vendor unique GNU tar extension.
          – schily
          Aug 31 at 13:59




          A typical tar implementation that is part of an operating system distro supports -I. This has been added to BSD tar (not bsdtar) in the late 1980s. But If a filename is in the -X file as well, itis excluded. Note that --exclude is a non-portable vendor unique GNU tar extension.
          – schily
          Aug 31 at 13:59












          @schily GNU tar supports both -T (equivalent to BSD’s -I, where -T also works) and -X, but as you imply they’re not helpful in this situation since the exclusions given by -X have greater precedence than the files given by -T.
          – Stephen Kitt
          Aug 31 at 14:31




          @schily GNU tar supports both -T (equivalent to BSD’s -I, where -T also works) and -X, but as you imply they’re not helpful in this situation since the exclusions given by -X have greater precedence than the files given by -T.
          – Stephen Kitt
          Aug 31 at 14:31

















           

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