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2002 Jul 31
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Patronizing the exclude * option
I need to get around the requirement of --exclude=* to have all the
parent directories of the files and directories that are to be
included. So given the file..
/startdirectory/subdirectory1/subdirectory2/filetobecopied
I need to include
/
/subdirectory1
/subdirectory1/subdirectory2
I could just include the entire directory structure , but
alternatively just include the needed paths. So the question is how
can I extract every parent directory of this path?
I tried wr...