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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-07-10 10:06:39 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2002-07-10 10:06:39 +0000
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Add a brief description of --exclude.
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du \- estimate file space usage
[DESCRIPTION]
.\" Add any additional description here
+[PATTERNS]
+PATTERN is a shell pattern (not a regular expression). The pattern
+.BR ?
+matches any one character, whereas
+.BR *
+matches any string (composed of zero, one or multiple characters). For
+example,
+.BR *.o
+will match any files whose names end in
+.BR .o .
+Therefore, the command
+.IP
+.B du --exclude='*.o'
+.PP
+will skip all files and subdirectories ending in
+.BR .o
+(including the file
+.BR .o
+itself).