On 12/6/24 17:11, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
These
> rsync \
> --exclude '*.mp3' \
> --exclude '*.mp4' \
> rsync \
> --exclude=$exclusions
are not the same. In the first one you have "--exclude" for each pattern,
and in the second you have it once. I suspect the first one is correct, and
for that reason I vote for that one, even those typing "--exclude" several
times gives several opportunities for error. You could do something
overengineered like defining an array "excludepatterns" for patterns, and
then doing something like
rsync \
$(for pattern in ${excludepatterns[@]} ; do
echo -- "--exclude '$pattern'"
done)
Modulo mistakes, of course. And make sure it deals with wildcards, quotes,
and spaces appropriately.
