-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Then I would say that the text I pasted is in the wrong section of the man page and needs to be moved into the filter rules section.
On 04/13/2015 02:02 PM, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:45:18 -0400 Kevin Korb wrote: >> The +/- syntax absolutely works in an --exclude-from or >> --include-from file I use it all the time. However, apparently >> the -/ syntax does not work there. > >> So, I am not sure if the man page is wrong or if this feature >> just isn't working correctly in an exclude file. > > This is perhaps this note in the "FILTER RULES" section: > > Note that the --include/--exclude command-line options do not allow > the full range of rule parsing as described above -- they only > allow the specification of include/exclude patterns plus a "!" > token to clear the list (and the normal comment parsing when rules > are read from a file). > > -- Francis > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ 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 iEYEARECAAYFAlUsB8MACgkQVKC1jlbQAQdmfQCg+TCmBFtpgVR6JXLHJBbsn8Of h+YAoKoObkYPLtWKdU+sN+vqrmUQFQGd =xxNE -----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