[Box Backup] Getting dirlist?

reticent boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:33:19 -0800


Pascal Lalonde wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 23:09 +0100, Remco Poelstra wrote:
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>>But how about an key:
>>ExcludeDirs = .*
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>Be careful with that though. Remember that the '.' and '..' directories
>match this pattern too.
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>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.
>
>Pascal
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Alone the "r" can terrible, however; when collaborating with "f", 
together, they can wreak even more havok