Nadim Tuhin https://www.nadimtuhin.com/blog Staff engineer and tech lead with 14+ years shipping production systems. Open to remote Staff and Tech Lead roles. en-us nadimtuhin@gmail.com (Nadim Tuhin) nadimtuhin@gmail.com (Nadim Tuhin) Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.nadimtuhin.com/blog/til-tar-exclude-directory-slash-trap TIL: Trailing slashes in tar exclude patterns silently disable directory matching https://www.nadimtuhin.com/blog/til-tar-exclude-directory-slash-trap A trailing slash on a tar exclude pattern prevents directory matching and packs excluded files anyway. Removing the trailing slash fixes the backup. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT nadimtuhin@gmail.com (Nadim Tuhin) tiltarbashdevops