Re: Excluding directories in recursive copies

[Mark . Burgess]

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On 26 Oct, Erik Williamson wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Feeling a little silly here - in a recursive copy, I don't want a 
> particular directory to get copied - it's a hidden directory (.dirname) 
> and I can't seem to stop it - I've tried "exclude=.dirname" with every 
> every combination of  wildcards and am now resorting to banging my head 
> against a wall.  One of those "tired" things, I'm thinking.
> 
> What have I missed in the documentation?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Erik.
> 



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