What I meant to say about using --exclude ~/data is that - if you would, hypothetically, use '--exclude data' it would exclude ~/data and any other directory or file called data - including the content of any said 'data' directory.
BTW: Everybody probably knows, but ~/data will be expanded to $HOME/data - it is just an alias for users home, not an file name. If you would to change user's home dir to /users/$USER, for example, in the /etc/passwd file '~' would expand to correct directory the next time you login. And, if some user dirs are in /home/$USER, others in /users/$USER, others in /abc/$USERS - '~' will expand to correct user's home dir, even when you refer to them as ~userName. -T On Thu, 2019-07-18 at 06:20 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > > ... adding to this ... > > you can use --exclude dirOrFileName multiple times - it will form a list > > > > in this particular case: --exclude data would work too, but it would exclude > > all > > other directories and files called data inside your recursive directory. > > This > > can be handy, or not, depending on the situation. > > Tohas, > > In ~/ there's only one data/ directory. Perhaps I'm mis-understanding. > > Thanks, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
