From 6746a3056381e47b4774edc8fa02b9fefb99dd18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert <Robert@TryingToScale.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:33:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] bk

---
 .aliases.d/tar.sh           |  2 +-
 .aliases.d/wordPress.sh     |  2 ++
 .data/user_def_excludes.ini | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 .aliases.d/wordPress.sh
 create mode 100644 .data/user_def_excludes.ini

diff --git a/.aliases.d/tar.sh b/.aliases.d/tar.sh
index 7745103..004cc21 100644
--- a/.aliases.d/tar.sh
+++ b/.aliases.d/tar.sh
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ bk() {
   local exclude_arg=(--exclude="./$(basename "$myoutfile")")
 
   (( verbose )) && echo "Making tar file $outfile"
-  tar -czf "$myoutfile" "${exclude_arg[@]}" "$@"
+  tar --exclude-vcs --exclude-from="$HOME/.data/user_def_excludes.ini" -czf "$myoutfile" "${exclude_arg[@]}" "$@"
 }
 
 function extract {
diff --git a/.aliases.d/wordPress.sh b/.aliases.d/wordPress.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a3ee2a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.aliases.d/wordPress.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# Find PO files, process each with msgfmt and rename the result to MO
+alias po2mo='for file in `find . -name "*.po"` ; do msgfmt -o ${file/.po/.mo} $file ; done'
diff --git a/.data/user_def_excludes.ini b/.data/user_def_excludes.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c8eb36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.data/user_def_excludes.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+*~ 
+*.sql
+*.zip
+*.xz
+*.tgz
+*.gz
+*.tar*
+*.log
+*.tmp
+*.swp
+*.lock
+**/.git/
+**/node_modules/
+**/vendor/
+**/nbproject/
+**/logs/
+**/tmp*/
+**/cache*/ 
+**/Cache*/ 
+**/lost+found*/ 
+**/Trash*/ 
+**/trash*/ 
+**/.gvfs/