Richard Perrin

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	136 reputation	bio	website		visits	member for	1 year, 2 months
3 badges		location	Ottawa, Canada		seen	Apr 3 '12 at 20:35

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Mar 1	awarded	Supporter
Mar 1	comment	process files in a directory as they appear See Ole Tange's informative example: CLOSE_WRITE is the event that occurs at the time you want - end of file creation. Here's another example: sauers.com/blog/linux-tip-inotify
Feb 29	awarded	Editor
Feb 29	revised	tar --exclude doesn't exclude. Why? Added example, removed potential problem that wouldn't affect that version of tar
Feb 29	comment	tar --exclude doesn't exclude. Why? The equal sign can be essential to avoid shell expansion of unquoted patterns. If you have a space instead, then an unquoted pattern can be expanded by the shell into a single --exclude argument, and the remaining expansions give as files to add to the tar file. Your examples above all have '=' - if the script doesn't, and is missing single quotes, then that can the source of your problem.
Feb 29	answered	Have Bash script wait for status message before continuing
Feb 29	answered	process files in a directory as they appear
Feb 29	answered	tar --exclude doesn't exclude. Why?
Feb 29	answered	GNU/Linux (Debian): detecting hard-disks mappings?
Feb 29	answered	Multiple ssh sessions in single command
Feb 29	awarded	Teacher
Feb 29	answered	What characters do I need to escape when using sed in a sh script?