TAR exclude is not working !

UNIX Solaris
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I have solaris 10 and my following exclude is not working:

tar -cvf /export/home/backups/$audit-Data-$useday.bkup.tar /Data --exclude=/Data/ssg/output

a /Data/ssg/output/ 0K
a /Data/ssg/output/ssg-ported508.txt 107142K
a /Data/ssg/output/ssg-ported747.txt 1801K
a /Data/ssg/output/ssg-ported574.txt 20146K
a /Data/ssg/output/ssg-ported906.txt 6041K
..etc

Why ?

I am trying to exclude this dir: /Data/ssg/output

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There is no --exclude option with tar, this is a GNUism.

You might use this syntax:

tar cvfX /export/home/backups/$audit-Data-$useday.bkup.tar <(echo /Data/ssg/output/) /Data

Alternatively, use GNU tar which might already be installed in /usr/sfw/bin/gtar or somewhere else.

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3

Worked perfectly. Thank you
1) How can I exclude multiple dir from /Data in this command:

 tar -cvf /export/home/backups/$audit-Data-$useday.bkup.tar <(echo /Data/ssg/output) /Data

2) I do have gtar installed. How do you use gtar in this case? I never used it before?

Thanks

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1) Yes, you can exclude multiple directories, here is one way:

tar cvfXX /export/home/backups/$audit-Data-$useday.bkup.tar <(echo /Data/ssg/output/) <(echo /Data/ssg/someOtherDirectory/) /Data

2) More or less the syntax you were trying:

/usr/sfw/bin/gtar -cvf /export/home/backups/$audit-Data-$useday.bkup.tar --exclude=Data/ssg/output /Data
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Perfect. Thanks