Serge Caron wrote: > > Glad to be of service! > > >I am confused ;< > > > >[1] Shouldn't your sed process: > > > > sed -e "/^etc/d" -e "/^[/]etc/d" -e "/^[.][/]etc/d" \ > > ${pkg} > ${pkg}.light > > > >actually be this? > > > > sed -n "/^[./]*etc/p" ${pkg} > ${pkg}.light > > I am only concerned with deleting lines that start with etc..., /etc..., and > ./etc... (Note that this will match a directory like /etcold but I don't > care). So the first attempt is to produce a new file list that does not have > any of those lines.
This is where I get lost. When you said: ``When I want to backup, I simply remove the write protect tab on the floppy. I can assure you that it takes a lot of config data to fill 1.6Mb of compressed space.'' I thought that you were backing up *only* config data. How does your sed process facilitate this quoted intent of yours? By-the-by, this is considerably faster: sed -e "/^[./]*etc/d" ${pkg} > ${pkg}.light > >[2] How do you account for ${pkg}.exclude.list? > > ${pkg}.exclude.list is a proper substring of ${pkg}.list and therefore gets > included in the for loop. Yes, I know; but, how does including excluded data facilitate your needs? > >[3] How do you account for CONF files that do not reside under /etc? > > > This particular code snippet treated /etc one way and /var a completely > different way. I could integrate both by producing a different exclusion > list for the default store. I'll think about it. Yes, or similarly . . . > >[4] Where do you get `cmp'? > > cmp is a busybox applet. If don't have Andersen kit at hand, there is a > rather plump busybox on the discussion.img disk that I referred to earlier > this week. O'Reilly "Linux in a nutshell" has proper documentation for it. I know that it is available; but, it is *not* included in DCD -- is it included in Oxygen? I do not argue against its usage; rather, I am often frustrated by lack of real awk, sed and sort -- not to mention cmp and diff ;< What do you think? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel