[Box Backup] Getting dirlist?

Remco Poelstra boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Mon Jan 31 22:25:50 GMT 2005


Pascal Lalonde wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 23:09 +0100, Remco Poelstra wrote:
> 
>>But how about an key:
>>ExcludeDirs = .*
> 
> Be careful with that though. Remember that the '.' and '..' directories
> match this pattern too.
> 
> I learned this the hard way, a few years ago. The kind of thing you
> don't forget, especially when the command involves a -r.

True, but with some 'userfriendly easy leafmatching' there is no need 
for matching . and .. (which I actually had expected boxbackup to ignore 
already).

Remco



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