[On 15 Jan, @ 05:44, Matthew wrote in "Bug#290599: exclude: is it a r ..."] > Package: hdup > Version: 2.0.4-1 > Severity: normal > > hdup.conf(5) says "The include and exclude keywords take regular > expression as there input." > > But the example hdup.conf has lines like > exclude = lost+found/, /proc/, /dev/, /sys/ > exclude = /var/*/docs > which are clearly not intended to be regular expressions
you're right about the /var/*/docs, that should be /var/.*/docs/ All these expression are posix compliant regular expression. And /proc/ is a valid expression meaning just /proc/. the documentation concercing these expression could be better than the current few lines in the manual page. But, alas, there are only 24 hours in a day :) -- grtz, -- Miek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
