What is the correct syntax to exclude directories whose first character is '.', i.e. a dot?
A client admin is trying to exclude directories like /home/ username/.maildir from a Linux backup. The usual syntax, exclude.dir / home/username/.maildir does not do this, and in my testing aborted the preview program. Double-quotes around the path did not prevent the abend, while double-quotes around the whole command string did provoke a syntax error message. The preview abend may be an ungraceful reaction to a syntax error in the include/exclude file, but what is the correct syntax to exclude directories whose first character is '.', i.e. a dot? Thank you, Keith Arbogast Indiana University
