Re: Using hdup 2.0.0

[my question]:
> > Following from the previous observations, if you want to match just
> > "evolution" and not ".evolution", I think you'd have to use
> something like [^.]evolution, since /evolution would force the match
> to the root directory.

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 15:54 +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> yes, exactly, the / is in no way special .

I see, I was mistaken about / being special at the beginning of the
pattern.  It does not force it to the root of the filesystem.  ^/ should
do that.  That's better than I thought, actually.

The / at the end is only very slightly special - it causes a "Now
Leaving" message to be output with the -VV flag. Without the trailing /
there is no message but the directory is still excluded, which confused
me the first few times through.  (And of course without the trailing /
you could catch a non-directory file of the same name, but that follows
from the "just match against the pathname" rule, if you imagine all
directories being written with their trailing / when they're compared
against the regexp).

Bng

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