Re: excludes in copies

[Mark . Burgess]

Ignore for directories. Exclude for regular files.

M

On  3 Feb, Anne Cross wrote:
> I've got some directories that I'd like to copy out recursively, but as
> we're using RCS to control a lot of these configs, I'd like to exclude
> the RCS directory and it's contents from the copy.  
> 
> I've got the following line at the moment:
> 
>  calendar.production::
>     $(sourcedir)servers/calendar/calendar-prod/
>        dest=/usr/local server=$(CFMaster) r=inf exclude=RCS/ exclude=*,v 
> 
> and the "exclude=RCS/" doesn't appear to work.  The RCS files themselves
> aren't copying because of the "exclude=*,v" but I'd like to not send the
> directories out either.
> 
> Consulting the documentation hasn't given me any hints as to what I 
> might be doing wrong.  
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
>       -- Anne
> 
> Anne Cross
> Systems Administrator, Tufts University
> "Change has become a constant; managing it has become an expanding
>  discipline." -- Queen Elizabeth II of England
> 
> 
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