08-12-2012
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1)What does the + sign do?
See
man find for your system (whatever that is?). If it is not there, just use
\; as usual. The
+ can be faster on certain Operating System (e.g. modern Solaris).
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2) Thanks for the comment about the whitespace-I hadn't thought about that. (I don't believe that whitespace is legal on an apache server, but the MD5 does work on files in the tree that contain white space (I tested it)). If I did need to use a directory that incudes whitespace, could I just include escape sequences in the exclude variables?
Apache is a package which you can install on unix of Linux. Whether it be unix of Linux, the Operating System will support space characters in filenames.
The sentence supplement containing "MD5" makes no sense whatsoever to me.
"Escape Sequences" are usually associated with driving special effects on Printers and VDUs. What do you mean?
Please provide examples of awkward directory names which you wish to exclude (blotting anything confidential with X's).
When the list gets awkward the best approach is to use
sed with a sedfile to eliminate unwanted file or directory names. Using a sedfile means that the Shell does not see the awkward names and therefore cannot confuse the situation.
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dh_movefiles
DH_MOVEFILES(1) Debhelper DH_MOVEFILES(1)
NAME
dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages
SYNOPSIS
dh_movefiles [debhelperoptions] [--sourcedir=dir] [-Xitem] [file...]
DESCRIPTION
dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving files out of debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package
build directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile that installs everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that
up into subpackages.
Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use it instead of dh_movefiles.
FILES
debian/package.files
Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can
also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved.
OPTIONS
--sourcedir=dir
Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire
contents of the sourcedir is moved, specifying something like --sourcedir=/ is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir must
be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a `/'.
-Xitem, --exclude=item
Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed.
file ...
Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory
will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless you use -p, -i, or -a to tell dh_movefiles which subpackage to put them in.
NOTES
Note that files are always moved out of debian/tmp by default (even if you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher
than one, which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The idea behind this is that the package that is being built can be
told to install into debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by dh_movefiles from that directory. Any files or directories that remain are
ignored, and get deleted by dh_clean later.
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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