tell tar to ignore sockets - I don't want to see warnings

Question

I have this warning message about sockets with tar:

ERRO[0000] Can't add file /home/ubuntu/backup-db/.bunion.sock to tar: archive/tar: sockets not supported

how can I tell tar that I don't care?

What implementation of tar are you using? it appears to be possible in GNU tar using --warning=no-file-ignored — steeldriver, Oct 4 '19 at 21:59

Aaron D. Marasco · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-04 21:35:33Z

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--exclude is the command line option.

answered Oct 4 '19 at 21:35

Aaron D. Marasco

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umm like ``--exclude=pattern'`? – Alexander Mills Oct 4 '19 at 21:47
does the pattern of --exclude support file modes? could you use it to exclude sockets, no matter what their name is? – Uncle Billy Oct 5 '19 at 6:14
I don't think so. For something like that, I'd use find piped into a file and use that as the list of files to tar, e.g. tar Jcvf myfile.tar -T <(find . -type f) (untested of course) – Aaron D. Marasco Oct 5 '19 at 23:30

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