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“tar --exclude-backups” does not exclude files with tilde at end
If I have the following directory:
$ ls -a foo
. .. a #a# a~ b b.bkp c .git .hg .svn
and call:
$ tar zcf foo-no-bkp.tar.gz --exclude-backups foo/
The resulting archive still has backup ...
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Why doesn't tar ask before overwriting existing files?
I lost a couple hundred lines of a Vim plugin I wrote and continue back up every so often because I extracted a tar file containing an older version. I decided not to use source control management ...
