> > > restore -m '^/(|home(|/username(|/Desktop(|/.*))))$' /dev/sdb2 /output > > > > But that example is just bonkers > > I agree ugly, but why bonkers (I understand that to mean silly) ?
Well, I guess I mean that it's so ugly that we can't reasonably expect people to use it :). > I like the idea better than my regex. The implementation doing > matching should however iterate over all path components, so that > it's not neccessary to do > > -g / -g /home -g /home/username -g /home/username/Desktop -g > '/home/username/Desktop/*' > > but to make this suffice: > > -g '/home/username/Desktop/*' > > Chopping up the string is easy enough. Yeah, agreed. It's annoying that we have to do this by hand :/. - z -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html