You may use as many --exclude options on the command line as you like
to build up the list of files to exclude.
-See the EXCLUDE PATTERNS section for information on the syntax of
-this option.
+See the EXCLUDE PATTERNS section for detailed information on this option.
dit(bf(--exclude-from=FILE)) This option is similar to the --exclude
option, but instead it adds all exclude patterns listed in the file
specified pattern of filenames. This is useful as it allows you to
build up quite complex exclude/include rules.
-See the EXCLUDE PATTERNS section for information on the syntax of
-this option.
+See the EXCLUDE PATTERNS section for detailed information on this option.
dit(bf(--include-from=FILE)) This specifies a list of include patterns
from a file.