On Wednesday 22 March 2006 02:42, Jeff Vian wrote: > > yet it started to act recursively. Most of the hidden files were > > excluded by the filter, but it let .DOCPSERVER_box.domain.lan, > > .ICEauthority and .Xauthority. I don't think that the first one is a > > problem, since it is linked to the box, but the other ones probably are. > > What do you think? > > If you want to exclude the ones that start with an uppercase letter, > change .[a-z]* to .[a-zA-Z]*. This is caused by the fact that shell > globbing is case sensitive, so you need to explicitly list both cases in > your expression. > Yes, I suspected that would be the solution, but held off until I resolve the multiple exclusion question and recursivity. I will make local backups to RW of any config files I suspect I'd want to keep. However, can you see any reason why the command I gave would act recursively? That was totally unexpected, and undesired at this stage. I need to workout the exclusion list first. What about multiple exclusions, Jeff? Do they get listed space-separated? Or is there some way to pass a file as the parameter? Anne
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