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From: rees@dabo.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: backing up files
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Date: 4 Apr 91 15:06:01 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.053404.6435@alphalpha.com>, nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:

  >> I want to back up all the .ftn, .f, .c, and .h files in a directory tree
  >> that is about 40 meg binaries and source.  I did a tried this:
  >> 
  >> 	wbak `find $SRC \( -name '*.[fch]' -o -name '*.ftn' \) ...` \
  >> 	 -dev ct -f 1

  ...
  >    /usr/apollo/bin/wbak \?\*.\[fch\] \?\*.ftn -dev ct -f 1 

  Since you need recursive what you really want is
  	/usr/apollo/bin/wbak $SRC/.../\?\*.\[fch\] $SRC/.../\?\*.ftn

If you would rather use Unix wildcard syntax, you can still use find:

  find $SRC \( -name '*.[fch]' -o -name '*.ftn' \) ... >file-list
  wbak '*' -dev ct -f 1 <file-list