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| author | Todd Lewis | 2017-03-28 21:16:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Ruediger Meier | 2018-06-12 14:24:02 +0200 |
| commit | 551e8963f4ca7850a2d91bcb5ffb6032a690e93f (patch) | |
| tree | fbd3b4113c8ac5b785e2e3690e5992ce10fccffe /misc-utils/hardlink.1 | |
| parent | Fixed 32 bit build with gcc7 (RH Bugzilla ID 1422989) (diff) | |
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exclude files via pcre
Diffstat (limited to 'misc-utils/hardlink.1')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/hardlink.1 b/misc-utils/hardlink.1 index 04228f4bb..b8bfe9d22 100644 --- a/misc-utils/hardlink.1 +++ b/misc-utils/hardlink.1 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ hardlink \- Consolidate duplicate files via hardlinks .SH "SYNOPSIS" .PP -\fBhardlink\fP [\fB-c\fP] [\fB-n\fP] [\fB-v\fP] [\fB-vv\fP] [\fB-h\fP] directory1 [ directory2 ... ] +\fBhardlink\fP [\fB-c\fP] [\fB-n\fP] [\fB-v\fP] [\fB-vv\fP] [\fB-x pattern\fP] [\fB-h\fP] directory1 [ directory2 ... ] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP This manual page documents \fBhardlink\fP, a @@ -32,8 +32,14 @@ Do not perform the consolidation; only print what would be changed. Print summary after hardlinking. .IP "\fB-vv\fP" 10 Print every hardlinked file and bytes saved. Also print summary after hardlinking. +.IP "\fB-x pattern\fP" 10 +Exclude files and directories matching pattern from hardlinking. .IP "\fB-h\fP" 10 Show help. +.PP +The optional pattern for excluding files and directories must be a PCRE2 +compatible regular expression. Only the basename of the file or directory +is checked, not its path. Excluded directories' contents will not be examined. .SH "AUTHOR" .PP \fBhardlink\fP was written by Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>. @@ -48,3 +54,9 @@ it. If a directory tree does change, this may result in \fBhardlink\fP accessing files and/or directories outside of the intended directory tree. Thus, you must avoid running \fBhardlink\fP on potentially changing directory trees, and especially on directory trees under control of another user. +.PP +Historically \fBhardlink\fP silently excluded any names beginning with +".in.", as well as any names beginning with "." followed by exactly 6 +other characters. That prior behavior can be achieved by specifying +.br +-x '^(\.in\.|\.[^.]{6}$)' |