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Example path for --exclude-from #5236
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Well, if you consider that parsing of arguments and splitting at spaces is a feature of your shell (and quoting is for working around that feature), it is quite intuitive. The contents of --exclude-from or --patterns-from files are not processed by your shell, but directly read by borg. OTOH, when entering |
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Taking this one, documenting both patterns files and exclude files. |
Have you checked borgbackup docs, FAQ, and open Github issues?
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I found it quite hard to find out how to use/allow spaces in --exclude-from file, one extra example in manual/help might help a lot:
No need to escape spaces
/mnt/c/System Volume Information
(not having to escape spaces is quite counterintuitive :)