SUMMARY: tar with -C and wildcard

From: tsh@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 07:35:25 EDT

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Thanks Tim and Olle,

The * is expanded by the shell (filename globbing) and not by tar itself.
(Why didnt I know this? - I'll blame it on Monday morning'itis)
Escaping it with \*, or enclosing the whole thing in ' ' doesnt help.
Looks like we cant do this sort if thing...

Cheers,
Terry.

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