On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 23:24, Richard Miller wrote: > 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?
I assume you are using rsync. Just run rsync in dry mode (-n I think) along with -rav. That will show you what it would do if you were running it for real. Michael > > > 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 > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
