On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Ken Gillett wrote:
OK, thanks for that. For some reason that escapes me now, I was sure
that [--exclude '.*'] caused problems.
I'll have a go with just '.*'.
My guess is that you were once trying to sync a directory containing
hidden (dot) directories. So, e.g.:
$ tr
OK, thanks for that. For some reason that escapes me now, I was sure that it
caused problems.
I'll have a go with just '.*'.
On 20 Aug 2011, at 09:38, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote:
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> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:47:34 +0200 Ken Gillett wrote:
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>> I want to exclude from the sync ALL files t
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:47:34 +0200 Ken Gillett wrote:
> I want to exclude from the sync ALL files that start with a dot, IOW
> hidden files. But using --exclude '.*' does funny things with
> directories (or at least I think it does). Is there a recognised
> correct way to do this?
Using --exclud
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Ken Gillett wrote:
> I want to exclude from the sync ALL files that start with a dot, IOW hidden
> files. But using --exclude '.*' does funny things with directories (or at
> least I think it does). Is there a recognised correct way to do this?
>
> I thought --ex
