On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:20:30PM -0800, Ian Kettleborough wrote: > I am trying to exclude a few directories from being copied to a 2nd local > hard disk. I have read the doc's, used the --exclude-from= to specify the > filename.. but > > What confuses me is whether a directory listed in this file should have a > trailing / on it or is the file completely different fro what I think it is. > > ie: > > /usr/src > > or > > /usr/src/
Either one should work. If you put a trailing slash on, it just guarantees it is a directory as opposed to an ordinary file. - Dave
