[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Expansion of Double Asterisk

[Holden Hao]

I have not received any replies to my question.  I would appreciate if
somebody drops me a note.  A short reply pointing me to a mistake
would at least point me to a direction.

Thanks.


Holden

On 7/26/05, Holden Hao <address@hidden> wrote:
> Form the documentation a double asterisk "**" is supposed to expand to
> its full path such that if you use an expression such as "**txt" means
> all files ending in "txt" will be backed up.  However, I have observed
> that if you use the double asterisk twice in an include directive only
> the first is carried out correctly.
> 
> "rdiff-backup --include '**txt' --include '**xls'  --exclude path path
> backuppath" only backs up txt files recursively.  When using :
> 
> "rdiff-backup --include-globbing-filelist list.txt path backuppath" where
> 
> list.txt is:
> **xls
> **doc
> -path
> 
> produces the same effect.
> 
> What I am trying to do is to selectively backup only files that are of
> a particular extension like .doc, .xls, .jpg.
> 
> I have tried using "--include-regexp" but I have not made it work
> recusively.  Only the files on the parent directory gets backed up.  I
> used something like:
> 
> "rdiff-backup --include-regexp 'txt$' --include-regexp 'doc$'
> --exclude '**'  path backuppath"
> 
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> 
> Holden
>