Add tilde expansion in file selection

[Jon Black]

I'm want to backup my home folder but exclude all hidden files and folder. If I try the option `--exclude .*` I get the error:

Fatal Error: The file specification
    .*
cannot match any files in the base directory
    /home/jon

However, if I use the option `--exclude /home/jon/.*` it works fine. This is very contradicting.

duplicity version: 0.6.23

[no (anonubuntu8998)]

I ran into this same issue trying to include symlinks in my home directory. Running `duplicity` with ~ as my working directory and using `--include Pictures` gave me identical errors to Jon Black but running with `--include /home/me/Pictures` worked perfectly.

[no (anonubuntu8998)]

I forgot to mention and can't find a way to edit my post: duplicity version 0.8.12

[Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman)]

See FILE SELECTION in the man page. The '~' is not expanded. I'm making this a wishlist item because it does have a 'workaround' by specifying full pathnames.

[Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman)]

This is being fixed, however your example is wrong:

$ ls ~.*
ls: ~.*: No such file or directory

should be:

$ ls ~/.*
<long list>

In my case, '~' is '/home/ken'. Your example yields '/home/ken.*'. Corrected, with a slash, it yields '/home/ken/.*'.