selective dirs only

[Res]

Hi Wayne,

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Wayne Davison wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:16:22PM +1000, Res wrote:
> > Ahh ok, I thought the -r would take care of all files and dirs under it.
>
> The -r just gets it going, the exclude "*" excludes anything that
> doesn't match something earlier in the list.  I personally prefer not to
> use it in such a situation, I would do this instead:
>
>   --include=/dir1/ --include=/dir2/ --exclude="/*"
>
> That way the /* doesn't match anything down inside dir1 or dir2, and
> thus you don't need all the extra wild-card rules.
>


Thanks, thats shortens the command line by half :)