exclude this file #notes#

[Dave Dykstra]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:57:03AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:34:23PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > 
> > What is the necessary syntax to exclude a file named #notes# from an
> > action?
> > 
> > I've tried these without success:
> > 
> > #*
> > "#*"
> > #notes#
> > "#notes#"
> > \#notes\#
> 
> The man page says lines beginning with # in an --exclude-from file are
> ignored.  You could use --exclude "#from#" on the command line, or you could
> do something that would remove the '#' from the first character in an
> exclude-from file.  Quotes and backslashes are not recognized in the file.
> You could try '*#notes#', or if the file is at your top level directory you
> could use '/#notes#'.


Oh yeah, Rusty's posting reminded me of another possibility; these two
together should be completely equivalent to the command line 
--exclude '#notes#':

    /#notes#
    /**/#notes#

- Dave