Solved Backup with tar and exclude a dot name sub directory

[Aknot]

I'm trying to exclude a sub directory in /root with tar --exclude.
The sub directory I want to exclude is /root/.acme.sh - which I have a separate backup for.

This is what I have:

# tar –cvf --exclude='.acme.sh' /var/backup/root-`date +'%Y-%m-%d'`.tgz /root/

But I'm always get the following error:

tar: --exclude=.acme.sh: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I have tried the following, with no luck:

--exclude='./.acme.sh'
--exclude='.acme.sh'
--exclude='/root/.acme.sh'

Thanks,

 

[Charlie_]

tar -cvf /var/... --exclude='.acme.sh' /root/

man tar
-f file, --file file

--exclude=.acme.sh is being interpreted as a filename.

 

[Aknot]

Perfect, thanks!