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authorben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2002-08-10 00:42:32 +0000
committerben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2002-08-10 00:42:32 +0000
commit9b91160b33f48de81a81088b56491574a8998d71 (patch)
treecbddf643c391e5418cb7449bbfecd67e39a4c007 /rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
parent2229f7c383e63da7688f8362e80a05079a30dff9 (diff)
downloadrdiff-backup-9b91160b33f48de81a81088b56491574a8998d71.tar.gz
Few miscellaneous changes of usual kind
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@179 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
index 18dc524..762e20e 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
@@ -623,6 +623,10 @@ insensitive), then this prefix will be removed and any character in
the string can be replaced with an upper- or lowercase version of
itself.
+Remember that you may need to quote these characters when typing them
+into a shell, so the shell does not interpret the globbing patterns
+before rdiff-backup sees them.
+
The
.BI "--exclude " pattern
option matches a file iff:
@@ -658,7 +662,7 @@ For example,
.PP
.RE
matches /usr/local, /usr/local/lib, and /usr/local/lib/netscape. It
-is the same as --exclude /usr/local --exclude /usr/local/**.
+is the same as --exclude /usr/local --exclude '/usr/local/**'.
.PP
.RS
.B --include
@@ -672,7 +676,7 @@ that included subdirectories have somewhere to go. Finally,
.PP
.RS
.B --include
-ignorecase:/usr/[a-z0-9]foo/*/**.py
+ignorecase:'/usr/[a-z0-9]foo/*/**.py'
.PP
.RE
would match a file like /usR/5fOO/hello/there/world.py. If it did