On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:03:39PM +0100, Miek Gieben wrote: > [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 :)
+ is also an operator, so lost+found should be lost\+found -- Matthew Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
