Re: rsync's --exclude= syntax

[Brian Fitzwater <brian@fitzwater.us>]

I can never remember the delimiters for this either, so I use 
--exclude-from=FILE to read exclude patterns from FILE (one pattern per 
line).

--fitz

On Saturday 14 April 2007 19:07, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> As is so often the case with Linux/UNIX utilities, the man page for
> rsync lacks the syntax details to make the --exclude= option work. I'm
> trying to avoid rsyncing the following remote files and directories:
>
> .cgf-stage/
> .stage-cgf/
> mail-archives/
> tmp/
> .message
> SYNC_STAMP.txt
>
> The following variations do NOT work:
>
> --exclude='./.cgf-stage/ ./.stage-cgf/ ./mail-archives/ ./tmp/ ./.message
> ./SYNC_STAMP.txt' --exclude='.cgf-stage/ .stage-cgf/ mail-archives/ tmp/
> .message SYNC_STAMP.txt'
>
> What will???
>
> --Doc
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