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Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux

2005-06-03 05:10:47
Subject: Re: GNUTAR exclude lists not working in Windows or Linux
From: Joe Rhett <jrhett AT meer DOT net>
To: Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:47:17 -0700
Okay, so if it isn't a documentation problem then what do we test now?  A
test lab just demonstrated what I already knew.

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:16:18PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Joe Rhett wrote:
> > 
> >In the meantime, can you confirm "exclude file" versus "exclude list" ?
> >Someone else reported a different syntax that conflicts with the man page,
> >but actually makes more sense to the naked eye.  This may be a
> >documentation problem.
> 
> The documentation is correct:
> 
>    exclude file "./some*thing"
>       this excludes all the files matching name "some*thing"
>    exclude list "/some/file"
>       /some/file on the client contains a list of patterns
>       to be excluded
> 
> 
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