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cd
echo "Installing..."
curl -#L https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar x --strip-components 1 --exclude 'README.md' --exclude 'bootstrap.sh'
echo "Done"

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@kitcambridge Much better, thanks!

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@mathiasbynens Sure! I've been trying to find a way to merge the two --exclude options, but tar doesn't seem to understand the {README.md,bootstrap.sh} syntax. Interestingly, unzip supports more advanced globbing and removing all leading directory names...but it doesn't support piping, so using the zipball won't work.

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curl -#L https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar xz --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh}

BTW: You can run the script without -z?

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@yangg Thanks! It seems to work fine without the -z:

cd; curl -#L https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -x --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh}

@kitcambridge I thought brace expansion was a Bash-wide feature… Weird that --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh} works while --exclude="{README.md,bootstrap.sh}" doesn’t. Perhaps @janmoesen can explain?

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Brace expansion only works for unquoted and unescaped braces:

$ echo {foo,bar}; echo \{foo,bar}; echo '{foo,bar}'; echo {foo,"bar{f,t}"};
foo bar
{foo,bar}
{foo,bar}
foo bar{f,t}

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(As an aside, tar automatically decompresses gzipped and bzip2-compressed tarballs since I Don't Know When, But I Do Remember Having To Explicitly Use -j and -z. Maybe someone on Unix and Linux - Stack Exchange knows when that happened, and for which flavours of tar exactly.)

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@janmoesen Thanks for clarifying! I’ll add the -z back in, just in case.

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@yangg, @janmoesen Thanks for the clarifications!

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