Re: Excluding paths with mkisofs

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

> >    find . -path 'pattern' -prune -o -print
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Even if you understand it, -path appears to be rooted and hard to use... 
> For instance, to avoid backing up application cache directories, you 
> need to use
>
>     -path '*/[Cc]ache/*'
>
> to get what you want. Something more intuitive would be useful to mere 
> mortals, thus my original suggestion.
>
> The current implementation is an example of "if it was hard to write it 
> should be hard to use."

No, it is easy to use if you did understand the way it works.
and BTW: mkisofs -find is not different to use than mkisofs -exclude-path

Jörg

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