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Diffstat (limited to 'rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1')
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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 |