Re: Fwd: Hdup feature suggestion

Guys, thanks for the input. This is what I have come up with:
I want this to be as simple as possible, so that even I can use 
it :)

* directory traversal:
write my own - it's trivial, and that way I get more flexibility.
(I already stole some code of net :) )
(First all files in a dir are processed, to look for a .nobackup
file, then the directories)

* patterns:
(stole the first two from rsync)

-  if the pattern starts with a / then it is matched against the start of the                       filename, otherwise it is matched against the end of the filename. This is the                      equivalent of a leading ^ in regular expressions. Thus "/foo" would match a                         file called "foo" at the transfer-root (see above for how this is different                         from the filesystem-root). On the other hand, "foo" would match any file called                     "foo" anywhere in the tree because the algorithm is applied recursively from
top down; it behaves as if each path component gets a turn at being the end of
the file name.

- if the pattern ends with a / then it will only match a directory, not a file,
link, or device.

- man 3 regcomp. That is, POSIX compliant regular expressions.

- include preceeds exclude

* Configuration

nobackup = .nobackup

if specified it will be used. If not specified it will not be used. I
don't want to look at the contents. If it's there the directory and 
all child-dirs will be excluded.

grtz Miek