'Twas brillig, and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek at 24/07/13 14:49 did gyre and gimble: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:32:55PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: >> Instead allow negation in the prefix filtering, to restrict the >> second call to apply to everything but /dev: >> >> systemd-tmpfiles --prefix=!/dev --create --remove > It's unfortunate that ! is a shell meta character. Maybe > - would be better? This way when someone takes the line > from the unit file and executes it in their shell, they > won't be surprised by the shell messing up their command.
I think overloading - might be a bad idea... Although the simplicity of a prefix char is nice, perhaps it's better to just be explicit here and add a second option --prefix-exclude (or --prefix-skip) or similar? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
