[Going through old email. I wanted to confirm whether there was an rsync bug here.]
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:16 -0500, Ryan Flannery wrote: > The command I'm using is this: > rsync -avz --delete --delete-excluded --exclude-from=foo.txt /etc/ > $dest:path > > Where foo.txt contains either: > hide,/ /etc/passwd > or > hide,/s /etc/passwd > or > -/ /etc/passwd > or > -/s /etc/passwd > > In either case, the file /etc/passwd is always transferred to $dest:path --exclude-from only supports a file of plain exclude patterns. Use --filter='. foo.txt' instead. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
