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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Escaping ** correctly Post 302394756 by gaurav1086 on Friday 12th of February 2010 11:48:43 AM
Old 02-12-2010
Hello,

you can use --exclude-regexp if you dont have any files starting with a dot in the current directory. so the glob would not be expanded

args="--include /home --exclude-regexp '.*'"

One question: why do you need to have --exclude? Is duplicity recursive in nature.?

anyways I hope that solves your problem.

Regards,
Gaurav.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

exiqgrep

EXIQGREP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       EXIQGREP(8)

NAME

       exiqgrep - Search in the exim queue

SYNOPSIS

       exiqgrep [-a] [-c]

DESCRIPTION

       The  exiqgrep  utility  is a Perl script which offers possibilities to grep in the exim queue output. Unlike exiqsumm, it invokes exim -bpu
       itself and does not need to be invoked in a pipe.

OPTIONS

       -h	 Print help

       -f <regexp>
		 Match sender address (field is "< >" wrapped)

       -r <regexp>
		 Match recipient address

       -s <regexp>
		 Match against the site field from long output

       -y <seconds>
		 Message younger than

       -o <seconds>
		 Message older than

       -z	 Frozen messages only (exclude non-frozen)

       -x	 Non-frozen messages only (exclude frozen)

       -c	 Display match count

       -l	 Long Format [Default]

       -i	 Message IDs only

       -b	 Brief Format

       -R	 Reverse order

BUGS

       This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches
       would be greatly appreciated.

SEE ALSO

       exim(8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/

AUTHOR

       This manual page was stitched together from the source code by Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, using the exiqsumm man page by
       Andreas	Metzler   <ametzler   at   downhill.at.eu.org>,   for	the   Debian   GNU/Linux   system   (but   may	 be   used   by   others).

								  March 26, 2003						       EXIQGREP(8)
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