Re: Exclude dir as string parameter

"Zoran Ljubisic" <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:15:01 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.star.user
Message-ID <003101c5daf2$2b50e5f0$fd01a8c0@zoran>
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "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

Can you please give to me a small example? As a linux novice I am not quite 
sure how to use match.

Zoran