Re: [rdiff-backup-users] skipping .* files and directories

[Kurt Yoder]

On Sep 26, 2007, at 4:43 PM, James V wrote:

> I am backing up a directory that contains several user  
> directories.  I would like to skip all the dot files and  
> directories in each user directory (.*) without specifying the full  
> path for each user (i.e.  /home/user1/.* /home/user2/.*).  Is there  
> an easy way to skip all .* files and directories using the exclude  
> options without specifying the full path?  My attempts to do this  
> have failed but admittedly I am not well versed in python regular  
> expressions or extended shell patterns.
>
> Thanks,
> James


Doesn't /home/user/**.* work?