Re: cannot exclude specific subdirectory with -P

Thank you.
My problem was solved.

On 2019/02/12 6:10, Denis Corbin wrote:
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> On 11/02/2019 15:58, YAMAMOTO.Taku wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2019/02/11 22:21, Neil Darlow via Dar-support wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The option -P does not need the trailing /*
>>>
>>> Using -P Downloads is sufficient.
> 
> I agree with Neil, if any directory named "Downloads" is excluded, dar
> won't recurse in it and the ending /* is useless for that reason (this
> is a glob expressions, type "man 7 glob" for details)
> 
> providing -P "*/Downloads/*" will never remove "/home/me/Downloads"
> because it does not match du to the training /. However any
> subdirectory found inside home/me/Downloads will be excluded like for
> example:
>     /home/me/Downloads/documents
> 
>>>
>>> If you want to be more selective about which Downloads
>>> directories are excluded then include more information before
>>> Downloads e.g.
>>>
>>> -R / -P home/foo/Downloads -P home/bar/Downloads
>>
>> Still have problem in my Debian Linux9. However Cygwin dar(2.6.2)
>> is working normal(-P). -P "home/*/Downloads/*"
>>
>> I suppose linux dar have any bug.
> 
> Well, the code is the same between Cygwin and Linux and I have no
> problem here with -P option following your example and using 2.6.2 on
> Linux. This might well be a bug but so far it does not seems the most
> probable explanation. Can you thus try the following:
> 
> for all the following tests, you can add the --empty option to perform
> a dry-run execution: this will be faster and will save you disk space
> to store the test archives.
> 
> 
> 1 - add -vm option as *first* argument of dar and provide to the
> mailing-list the options list displayed by dar at the beginning
> (replace password or any other sensible data with ### if necessary).
> 
> 2 - check that the 'find' commands matches the files you expect to
> exclude:
> 
> find / -path "*/Downloads/*" -ls
> 
> 3 - add the -an option to dar before any filter option (-P, -g, -I,
> - -X, ...) an see if that does not work better, excluding the expected
> directories. This would indicate a case sensitivy issue (uppercase
> instead of lowercase or viceversa)
> 
> Regards,
> Denis
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