On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 10:56:34AM +0100, p cooper wrote:
> I'm using lftp to backup a series of machines to a remote ftp server
> Id like to exclude most of the ~/.   files
> I cant get the syntax for the -x  or -X options to exclude all files
> or directories that start with a  dot.

Try:
        mirror -X .* -X .*/

or
        mirror -x "(^|/)\."

-- 
   Alexander.
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