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The problem I encountered was that wildcards *were* expanded when I didn't want them to be. If exclude="C *.txt" then "for i in ${exclude}" expands the asterisk in *.txt to a list of .txt files in...

The reason for using eval $mycommand is so that other users can edit the top of the script where exclude and include are defined rather than having to read through the code. Your second construct is...

Thanks, at least I'm not going crazy ;) Searching around a little more, it seems there is a way to include multiple arguments. Basically you create a temp file with the patterns to exclude and point...

I'm having trouble understanding the exclude option in tar. From some web sites, it seems one is able to exclude several strings by enclosing them in curly brackets. However it seems to be "random"...

Hi, I have a problem I am trying to solve with bash.

I need to search in a file system (data base) with hundreds of directories and thousands of subdirectories and millions of files. The files...