RE: exclude option

I use *:\*.*\...*.ft*\*.*
all the time and it will exclude any file or directory with the ft variable
in it.

John Stephens


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas A. La Porte [mailto:tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 4:59 PM
> To: John Stephens
> Cc: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: exclude option
>
>
> Intuitively, you'd think it would work. Probably because we've
> all gotten used to regular expressions and other pattern-matching
> goodies. The following line from the "ADSM V3R1 UNIX
> Backup-Archive Client" manual, however, suggests otherwise:
>
> "*  The match-all character matches zero or more characters;
>     it does not go across a directory boundary. Use it in the
>     file name; do not use it in the directory name." (p. 76)
>
> Granted, Estee is using the NT client and not a UNIX variant, but
> I'm guessing that this code is shared and the same text appears
> in the NT Backup-Archive Client manual.
>
> For an alternate approach, there appear to be no restrictions as
> to where a character class (e.g. [a-z] )can be specified. If the
> universe of "*.ft" is fixed-length, you may be able to do the
> following:
>
>   exclude *:\...\[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9].ft\*.*
>
> This should exclude all files that are of the form
>
>    ...\ab.ft\*.*
>    ...\a0.ft\*.*
>    ...\b8.ft\*.*
>
> etc.
>
>  -- Tom
>
> Thomas A. La Porte
> DreamWorks Feature Animation
> tlaporte AT anim.dreamworks DOT com
>
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, John Stephens wrote:
>
> >Yes:
> >Your exclude statement should work..
> >
> >John Stephens
> >Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> >Stephens AT Storsol DOT com
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On 
> >> Behalf Of
> >> Estee Chen
> >> Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 1:32 PM
> >> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >> Subject: exclude option
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> Is the following exclude statement valid ?
> >>
> >>   exclude   *:\...\*.ft\*.*
> >>
> >> I want to exclude a few directories which ends with ".ft" and all it's
> >> subdirectories and files. I'm running NT Client 3.1.0.6
> >> How can I achieve that?
> >>
> >> Thank you!
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Estee Chen
> >>
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> >
>