Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 09:06:47PM +0000, Debra S Baddorf wrote: >> Ah, good! What does “file” do in your include line? >> Deb >> > Include (and exclude) can take a first argument of "file" or "list". > With "file" the following string is a "glob" expression. > "file" is the default but I like to specify it anyway. > > With "include list" the string that follows is the name of a file > containing "globs", one per line. > > You can have multiple "include file" globs if all but the first > are "include file append". So > > include file "./[a-gA-G]* > > could also be specified as > > include file "./[a-g]* > include file append "./[A-G]* > > Jon
A long, long time ago, I wrote a script to test the exclde files. I believe it could be adapted to test the include files too. I noticed the script was not online anymore, so I put it back: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~on/testgtar Best regards, Olivier >> >> >> > On Nov 8, 2018, at 2:54 PM, Jon LaBadie <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:43:49PM +0000, Debra S Baddorf wrote: >> >> Yeah, I do use includes, but I only do a single letter at a time >> >> include "./a*” >> >> >> >> Perhaps the problem is with the syntax of doing more than one letter. >> >> I only do [a-f] on my excludes. Weird! >> >> >> >> Deb Baddorf >> > >> > I have a working entry that matches the OP. >> > >> > include file "./201[7-9]*" >> > >> > Jon >> >> --
