RE: [rdiff-backup-users] skipping .* files and directories

[James V]

Yeah that would work but it wouldn't be generic for user1, user2, etc.  I got an email from another subscriber that helped me. 

This works>>>    **/.*

I got caught up in the shell pattern expressions I didn't think to try that.

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> CC: address@hidden
> From: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] skipping .* files and directories
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:58:13 -0400
> To: address@hidden
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> On Sep 26, 2007, at 4:43 PM, James V wrote:
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> > I am backing up a directory that contains several user
> > directories. I would like to skip all the dot files and
> > directories in each user directory (.*) without specifying the full
> > path for each user (i.e. /home/user1/.* /home/user2/.*). Is there
> > an easy way to skip all .* files and directories using the exclude
> > options without specifying the full path? My attempts to do this
> > have failed but admittedly I am not well versed in python regular
> > expressions or extended shell patterns.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James
>
>
> Doesn't /home/user/**.* work?

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