stan wrote:

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:16:09PM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote:

stan wrote:

/foo/bar/[A-J]*
/foo/bar/[K-z]*

Don't mix uppercase and lowercase in the character maps.
It depends on the current LANG and/or LC_* settings what they
expand to.  Probably not what you want.

Is there a way to this that IS safe given the locale stuff?

Stay in a logical range:

is ok:  [0-9]  [A-Z]  [a-z]  [!a-z]
   (if you ever used a EBCDIC character set in unix, then even those
last three were not safe, and included two extra ranges with braces
etc; no sane person uses EBCDIC anymore today -- I did, but I'm not
sane.)

is not ok:  [A-z]  [a-Z]
  (it's not a syntax error, but it does not what you expect it to do!)

The "all except" is encoded by an exclamation mark.

Assume this directory structure:

   /d/
   /d/l
   /d/l/e
   /d/d/d

then, this disklist entry does NOT backup /d/d/....:

   host /d /d {
        include "./l"
        }

so you don't need to an explicit exclude for it.
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