On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Have a look at the "optional" (for files) and "ignore" (for directories)

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> keywords in man page. And see examples in /etc/mtree/special.

>

> Generate your entire specification and then modify using "optional" and

> "ignore" as you wish.

Thanks for the info. But I was hoping to use it

in a fully automatic script.
> p.s. Some other implementations of mtree(8) have an exclude feature.
Yeah I noticed that too. I tried NetBSD's mtree on

OpenBSD but it didn't compile out of the box and

it didn't seem like a trivial thing to port.
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Antti Harri