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diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 index bd93703..a6725f0 100644 --- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 +++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 @@ -738,6 +738,15 @@ insensitive), then this prefix will be removed and any character in the string can be replaced with an upper- or lowercase version of itself. +If you need to match filenames which contain the above globbing +characters, they may be escaped using a backslash "\\". The backslash +will only escape the character following it so for +.B ** +you will need +to use "\\*\\*" to avoid escaping it to the +.B * +globbing character. + 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. |