-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am completely confused about what you are asking for here. Rsync uses patterns with some special additions that are only similar to shell globbing. If you have a file named "#something#" then any of the following in an exclude-from file would match it: #something# *#* #*#
On 12/31/2014 05:49 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Trying to cat filenames like #something#. neither of the things I > thought up work. > > *#* "#"* > > At least the second one above does work in a ls command like: > > ls "#"* #something# > > I understood an exclude file would use shell globbing and such. > > So what am I doing wrong? > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlSkfuwACgkQVKC1jlbQAQeLcQCg12ePFrczh9AxXd8rbTCgY/a2 BewAoJPMEEyDVlTYb3l/WFoBSUu9IMUz =vDIM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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