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Re: Syntax of pattern in the include and exclude section of tarsnap.conf

To: Russell Sutherland <russ@quist.ca>
Subject: Re: Syntax of pattern in the include and exclude section of tarsnap.conf
From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:48:53 -0700
Cc: tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
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Russell Sutherland wrote:
> Does the argument to exclude and include take a normal regular expression?

No.  For historical reasons, tar(1) takes shell globs -- I figured that it
was best to stay consistent with other tar implementations.

> Are multiple excludes allowed?

Yes.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid

References:
- Syntax of pattern in the include and exclude section of tarsnap.conf
  - From: Russell Sutherland <russ@quist.ca>

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