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On November 28, 2003 12:44 am, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote:
> I do not think you can specify a driectory in the exclude-from file.  You
> must list each file.  Wilcards do apply however.
>
> so mydir/* will work
>
> The file paths need to be relative to where you are running the command
> from. No quotes.
>
>
> AFAICT
>
>
> Andy
>
No, directories should work fine.  Here's an exclude file I use on one machine 
(well, part of it, but this gives you the idea):

/dev
/proc
/mnt
/tmp
/var/tmp
/lost+found

and so on.

Ian
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