Re: file exclusion pattern for checksum

[Wil Cooley]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 15:44 -0700, Mark Foster wrote:

> So the exclude "pattern" does not work. What kind of regex would 
> properly represent /etc/mtab, and how would I combine other file paths 
> to make a compound regex to exclude other paths as well (e.g. 
> /etc/ntp/drift comes to mind).

exclude=mtab should work; it matches relative to the /etc.  You can list
multiple exclusions, too:

/etc
  exclude=mtab
  exclude=ntp/drift

Do you really expect to have other file systems mounted under /etc?  If
not, you don't need the 'xdev' (unless I'm mis-remembering its purpose).

Wil
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