Re: Exclude dir as string parameter

Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:00:49 +0200

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"Zoran Ljubisic" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I define string with all exclude dirs for example:
>
> ExclDir="/tmp /proc /mydir"
>
> Is it possible to incorporate ExclDir variable into star command somehow to 
> get
>
> star -c -V /tmp/\* -V /proc/\* -V /mydir/\* ... ?

read the match(1) man page and use '!' expressions

Jörg

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