[Box Backup] ExcludeFilesRegex on Windows

Waldemar Augustyn boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:37:33 -0500


Robert B wrote:

>Does ExcludeFilesRegex allow backslashes on Windows?  I.e., do I need a backslash to exclude only files?  E.g.,
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>ExcludeFilesRegex = .*\foo.bar
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>or is this sufficient?:
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>ExcludeFilesRegex = .*foo.bar
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My guess is neither one is.  But that's just my speculation, I do not 
know the internals.  I would think you need a $ at the end to be more 
confident about what it does.  Unfortunately, BoxBackup docs have the $ 
escaped with a '\' in one place and non-escaped in another.  So which 
one is right?   That's my question.  There seems to be no easy way to 
tell.   I tested my RE strings with a Python interactive which 
supposedly adopts the platform's idea how to process REs.   This may 
have no relation to boxbackup's interpretation of REs, though.

>Also, does the period/dot/extension need to be backslashed?:
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>ExcludeFilesRegex = .*foo\.bar
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>Thanks.
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