mtree -X

[Victor Sudakov]

Polytropon wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 09:48:57 +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote:
>> Philipp Vlassakakis wrote:
>> >
>> >./dev works for me
>> >
>> ># cat ignore.mtree
>> >./dev
>> >
>> >then mtree -p / -c -X ignore.mtree > mtree.test
>>
>> Thanks, Philipp, it looks like a directory should start with a "./" and have no
>> trailing slash to be ignored.
>
>Correct. Check "man mtree" for the -X option:
>
>	If the pattern contains a `/' character, it will be
>	matched against entire pathnames (relative to the
>	starting directory); 


So, even if "-p /" is an absolute path, the exclude-file must contain 
a relative path? A bit contra-intuitive, but I can live with that.


> otherwise, it will be matched
>	against basenames only.
>
>Also see "man 3 fnmatch" which discusses the specific
>interpretation of "/" and "*" which applies to the
>exclude list.

Beats me. Can you perhaps quote the relevant part? I still don't 
understand why "./dev/" and "dev/" do not exclude /dev

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