On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:10:35AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:33:33AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Friday 26 January 2007 09:19, Ken Irving wrote: > > > For some reason, .dir1/ is not excluded if the option is given as > > > --exclude=/tmp/home/*/.*/ or --exclude=tmp/home/*/.*/. > > > > Expansion of unquoted globs in keyword arguments > > seldom gives the intended result. e.g. > > > > rsync --exclude=/home/*/.*/ /home/ /tmp/ > > > > might expand to: > > > > rsync --exclude=/home/a/.x/ /home/a/.y/ /home/b/.x/ /home/b/.y/ /home/ /tmp/ > > > > which copies a lot more than presumably intended. > > > > --Mike Bird > > Duh... Thanks, I needed that. The one that worked wouldn't match > anything, so the globbing characters would pass through as is, but > otherwise would expand as you say. I've already deleted the test > files, but I'm confident (well, sort of...) that those forms would work > if quoted.
Well, tried that but they still don't work. This is probably because rsync is not dealing with the full paths (from /), so the longer patterns just don't match. Ken -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
