Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Please help : regexp problem.

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Alan Horn <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:38:00 -0800 (PST)
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Andrew K. Bressen wrote:
> 
> >Alan Horn <address@hidden> writes:
> >> I need to do an rdiff-backup, and exclude files that match the pattern :
> >>
> >> core\.[0-9]+
> >>
> >> e.g. core.12345
> >>      core.4
> >>      core.222
> >
> >um, does
> >
> >rdiff-backup --exclude-regexp 'core\.[0123456789]*' source target
> >
> >do it for you?
> 
> So I've tried your suggested pattern, and it still backs up core.[0-9]*
> files, it didn't seem to work for me.

This works for me in a simple test:

    rdiff-backup --exclude-regexp 'core\.[0-9]*'

not sure why it doesn't work on your end.


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Ben Escoto