Linux – Duplicity – How to exclude hidden files / folders

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How can I exclude hidden files and folders when using Duplicity to backup my data?

I have tried –exclude '.*' –exclude '.' –exclude '**.'

These exclude everything except the folders I have specified with –include

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. and .. are special names for this directory and this directory's parent respectively.

You probably want something like .??* as your match pattern. This pattern requires at least three characters in the file name. It should exclude all hidden files and directories. It will miss directories like .a, but I haven't run across any such directories in the wild.

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Linux – rsync – Exclude files that are over a certain size

There is a max-size option:

--max-size=SIZE         don't transfer any file larger than SIZE

So:

# rsync -rv --max-size=1.5m root@tss01:/tmp/dm

Will send only files less than 1.5m.

Regarding sizes from man: The suffixes are as follows: "K" (or "KiB") is a kibibyte (1024), "M" (or "MiB") is a mebibyte (1024*1024), and "G" (or "GiB") is a gibibyte (1024*1024*1024). If you want the multiplier to be 1000 instead of 1024, use "KB", "MB", or "GB". (Note: lower-case is also accepted for all values.) Finally, if the suffix ends in either "+1" or "-1", the value will be offset by one byte in the indicated direction*

Linux – How to view hidden files using Linux `find` command

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find . -type f -name '*.php'

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