[uug] Help with Regular expressions and backing up files

[Richard Miller]

I want to backup my Home directory but there are some files that I just 
don't need to backup so I have compiled a list in "excludelist.txt".  
I'm not a pro with Regular expressions, but I've learned that I can 
type a command like this

$ find ~ | grep -f excludelist.txt

to show the all the files I want to exclude.

How do I, on the other hand, use the exclude list to show all of the 
files I want to INCLUDE?

Actually, I don't know what I will do with a list of the files I want 
to include, but there ought to be a way to backup those files once I 
have a list.  Am I heading in the right direction?

Thanks!

Richard Miller

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