From 6258626751eae37f2f6b469e3549f0744e1d3239 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:24:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document an alternate way to achieve the effect of this script through the use of awk and the more powerful --filter option. --- support/mnt-excl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/support/mnt-excl b/support/mnt-excl index 63d0ad9b..5d5abc46 100755 --- a/support/mnt-excl +++ b/support/mnt-excl @@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ # # NOTE: This script expects /proc/mounts to exist, but could be # easily adapted to read /etc/mtab or similar. +# +# ADDENDUM: The addition of the --filter option (which has support for +# absolute-anchored excludes) has made this script less useful than it +# was. Beginning with 2.6.4, you can achieve the effect of this script +# though this command: +# +# awk '{print $2}' /proc/mounts | rsync -f 'merge,/- -' host:/dir /dest/ use strict; use Cwd 'abs_path'; -- 2.34.1