Re: some new user questions

[void]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:36:33AM -0700, Graham Percival wrote:

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:16:51AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:

On 10/28/24 09:09, void wrote:
> In tcsh, I'm testing some systems with --dry-run and --exclude like this:
>
> % tarsnap --dry-run --no-default-config --exclude "*.{iso,img,tar,zst}"
> -- print-stats --humanize-numbers -v -c /home/void

Globbing is particularly full of pitfalls.  Does it work if you specify
    --exclude '*.iso' --exclude '*.img' --exclude '*.tar' --exclude '*.zst'
separately?

To confirm,

   tarsnap -v -c --dry-run --exclude "*.{txt,pdf}" .

does not work as one might expect.  Instead, you need multiple options:

   tarsnap -v -c --dry-run --exclude "*.txt" --exclude "*.pdf" .

I'll add a note to
https://www.tarsnap.com/selecting-files.html

This might be of some interest:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207369

I can't test it now, but maybe the "=" (--exclude="thing1,thing2)" would work?

I was able to get multiple excludes when the commands were run in a file, but 
not on the commandline. In both cases using /bin/sh

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