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Number   :  2652
Date     :  2002-08-14
Author   :  tarran2000
Subject  :  Re: Can you use %username% in an exclude list?
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The usage of %username%*.zip works from the command line, but I can't 
get this work from within my exclude file. Have you tried this out 
yourself Joseph?, as this doesn't work for me..


--- In xxcopy@y..., Joseph Maddison  wrote:
> > Is there any way I can exclude any file on the hard disk which 
starts 
> > with the person's username and ends with .zip I still need to 
back 
> > up other zip files so I can't just exclude *.zip I can't see any 
way 
> > to do this?
> 
> use the command (with whatever additional parameters you need)
> 
> xxcopy /S/E /X%USERNAME%*.zip *.* \wherever
> 
> where USERNAME is an environment variable you set up on the system 
login, if it 
> isn't already present. This can be used in conjunction with 
a /exexclude.lst 
> file for the rest of the files you wish to exclude that do not have 
env vars.
> 
> Joseph Maddison
> Minneapolis, MN



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