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Allow excluding files with $ via --exclude-file

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Previously it wasn't possbile to exclude files with a literal dollar
sign (`$`) via exclude files, now users can write `$$` for that.
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Alexander Neumann
2018-06-22 20:46:04 +02:00
parent bb2ad76833
commit 025ec9dff5
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@@ -158,7 +158,9 @@ Patterns use `filepath.Glob <https://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#Glob>`__ inte
see `filepath.Match <https://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#Match>`__ for
syntax. Patterns are tested against the full path of a file/dir to be saved,
even if restic is passed a relative path to save. Environment-variables in
exclude-files are expanded with `os.ExpandEnv <https://golang.org/pkg/os/#ExpandEnv>`__.
exclude-files are expanded with `os.ExpandEnv <https://golang.org/pkg/os/#ExpandEnv>`__,
so `/home/$USER/foo` will be expanded to `/home/bob/foo` for the user `bob`. To
get a literal dollar sign, write `$$` to the file.
Patterns need to match on complete path components. For example, the pattern ``foo``: