Re: [Bacula-users] include all dot-files from $HOME

[Arno L. <al...@it...>]

Hello,

On 2/1/2006 5:03 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Stephan Holl wrote:
> 
>>Hello Phil,
>>
>>On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:07:35 -0500 Phil Stracchino
>><phi...@sp...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Stephan Holl wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I am trying to implement all dot-files into a fileset. but cannot
>>>>manage it correctly. Perhaps someone has done that successfully.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>># TEST-fileset
>>>>FileSet {
>>>> Name = "testfileset"
>>>>
>>>> Include {
>>>>  Options {
>>>>       wildfile = "*."
>>>>  }
>>>>  Options {
>>>>       Exclude = yes
>>>>
>>>>       RegexFile = ".?*$"

As has been pointed out before, this is broken. An unescaped . means 
"anything", ? is IIRC "one or none of the characters before, * means 
"any number of the characters before", and $ is the end-of-line 
indicator. So, '.?*' will not work.

>>>>  }
>>>>    File="/home/user"
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>}
>>>>
>>>>Perhaps anybody has done this kind of task successfully, because I
>>>>do not have any luck using regex.
>>>
>>>I'm not sure why you'd want JUST the dotfiles, but the usual Unix
>>>shell regex for selecting dotfiles and ONLY dotfiles is: .??*
>>
>>
>>Thanks for that. I will give it a try asap. So only files, no
>>dot-folders I guess.
>>
>>As I am an apsolute RegEx-Dummy, I would kindly ask you to help out
>>here.
> 
> 
> 
> Perhaps my choice of words was misleading.  In the Unix shell, the regex
> .??* will select any file OR FOLDER whose name begins with a dot and
> then contains at least two additional characters.  This regex is
> typically ised to select all dotfiles (and folders) without also
> selecting . and .. at the same time.
> 
> The same principle should be applicable to a Bacula file selection regex.

By the way, the shell expansion does not use regular expressions...

To select only stuff starting with a dot, in a regular expression you 
should write '\.[^\.].+'. Unless I'm wrong, of course :-)

That RE would be spelled like "take everything which starts with a dot, 
and is followed by one character which is not a dot, and is followed by 
at least one character".

Keep in mind that I, too, am not exactly an expert with REs and usually 
need lots of trial-and-error...

> I am curious, though, why you want to back up the dotfiles, but not any
> other contents of the directory.

Me too...

Arno

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