OT: Regex question

[Gawain]

At 5:10 PM +0000 on 5/3/02, Robert Serphillips wrote:


>try using the --exclude switch to omit houseofbig.com
>
>look under the man pages.
>
>something to this effect
>tar -czvf backup.tar.gz /path/to/[a-z]* --exclude /path/to/houseofbig.com
>
>this won't include any hidden file.

That's what I finally ended up doing and it seems like the most 
efficient way. It was helpful to read the others posts too. I've got 
some other projects on the burner that'll benefit from getting more 
fluent with regex's.

Thanks!

Gawain