On Tuesday February 3 2009 21:16, you wrote:
>> rsync -aHESvv --delete \
>> --exclude '/home/jonathan/crypt/*' \
>> --exclude '/mnt/oxygen/home/jonathan/crypt/*' \
>> /home/jonathan/ /mnt/oxygen/home/jonathan/
>> This works fine except that the --exclude options are not honored
>> (files under those directories are still copied). I don't know
>> what's wrong there...
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>how about using double-quotes instead? for eg., --exclude
>"/home/jonathan/crypt/*". your shell might be preventing rsync from
>looking what's inside the quotes...
I think rsync needs to see the asterisks, not the shell. So single
quotes are correct. In my own scripts, when i wanted to exclude a
directory i used to specify just the directory with no wildcard and it
worked. Example:
--exclude '/home/jonathan/crypt'
However, that would also exclude /home/jonathan/crypt2 as collateral
damage. This format is what i use now and does what i think you want:
--exclude '/home/jonathan/crypt/**'
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