Exclude all dotfiles?

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Hi there,

I am on Linux and want to perform a backup of my entire /home directory.

But only of my actual documents.

Don't need to backup my config and dotfiles.

Would --exclude '.*{/**,}' be the correct filter to exclude any kind of config or dotfile (files and folders)?

Thanks!

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i think it would be

--exclude=**/.** --exclude=/.**

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Thanks! Doesn't mine merge those two together?

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I'm not sure. Perhaps. You can test it but i figured i'd just keep it simple.

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you can use --dry-run and you can do some testing.

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I think you could simplify that to just --exclude ".**" which means exclude any files starting with a . and any files in directories starting with ..

Note that rclone lsf -R --exclude ".**" /path is a great way of testing what gets excluded!

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Nice!

and any files in directories starting with ..

Would that also exclude the hidden (.) directory itself?

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Yes it should do

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