"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Is there a way to exclude a directory based on the content > of that directory? In particular I'm after a way to say > 'don't back up a directory if it contains a file called .....' > (where ..... is a regexp or at least a list of a few filenames). > I see there is support explicitly for a cache dir exclusion, > but I was looking for something a little more generic?
In general this is impossible or hard to implement because this would need to scan a directory "in advance". It you believe that this could be implemented using find(1), get star: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/ try: star -c f=/tmp/some.tar -find <find expression> Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
