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doc: Add note on tilde expansion in exclude files
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@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ even if restic is passed a relative path to save.
Environment-variables in exclude files are expanded with `os.ExpandEnv <https://golang.org/pkg/os/#ExpandEnv>`__,
so ``/home/$USER/foo`` will be expanded to ``/home/bob/foo`` for the user ``bob``.
To get a literal dollar sign, write ``$$`` to the file.
To get a literal dollar sign, write ``$$`` to the file. Note that tilde (``~``) expansion does not work, please use the ``$HOME`` environment variable instead.
Patterns need to match on complete path components. For example, the pattern ``foo``: