Re: [Duplicity-talk] Auto ignores archive dir?

[Richard Scott]

ah, but what happens if you have a directory with a space in it...
this will break the "for dir" loop ;-)

Rich

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:09:58 +0100, John Soros <address@hidden> wrote:
> By the way, just for the record:
> I have a working script running, but to do the same thing as you did 
> i
> had to turn off the shell's globbing:
> ==snip==
> #disable filename globbing
> set -f
> #build up the list of files/directories to exclude
> if [ -z $EXCLUDECMD ]; then
>     EXCLUDECMD=""
> fi
> for dir in $EXCLUDEDIRS; do
>   EXCLUDECMD="${EXCLUDECMD} --exclude $dir/**"
> done
>
> duplicity incremental ...
>
> #re-enable filename globbing
> set +f
> ==snip==
>
> HTH
>
>
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:01:35 +0000
> Chris Poole <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Just one more thing then. I'm not sure why this isn't working,
> > perhaps you do?
> >
> >     DRIVENAME='offsite1'
> >     INCLUDES=''
> >     EXCLUDES="--exclude ~/.cache --exclude ~/Library/Caches 
> > --exclude
> > ~/Dropbox --exclude ~/test --exclude ~/src --exclude ~/Downloads
> > --exclude ~/Public --exclude ~/Sites --exclude '**/.DS_Store'"
> >
> >     duplicity $INCLUDES $EXCLUDES ~/
> > "file:///Volumes/$DRIVENAME/backup/"
> >
> > I get the message:
> >
> >     Fatal Error: The file specification
> >         ~/.cache
> >     cannot match any files in the base directory
> >         /Users/Chris
> >
> > Now, I can use the glob **, to give **/.cache in the EXCLUDES
> > variable, but then won't this match any .cache directory, regardless
> > of depth? (I just want to match the ~/.cache directory explicitly).
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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