On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:34:23PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > > What is the necessary syntax to exclude a file named #notes# from an > action? > > I've tried these without success: > > #* > "#*" > #notes# > "#notes#" > \#notes\#
The man page says lines beginning with # in an --exclude-from file are ignored. You could use --exclude "#from#" on the command line, or you could do something that would remove the '#' from the first character in an exclude-from file. Quotes and backslashes are not recognized in the file. You could try '*#notes#', or if the file is at your top level directory you could use '/#notes#'. - Dave Dykstra
