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backupFileRegexp -- a regular expression for recognizing names of backup files

Description

This regular expression is used by copyDirectory and symlinkDirectory: they will ignore backup files when copying all the files in a directory, and just copy the other ones.

Caveat

Perhaps, instead of this being a global variable, there should be a way to change the default values for optional arguments to functions. We may change this.

For the programmer

The object backupFileRegexp is a string.