not a bug, buy colour me confused: /tmp/foo$ mkdir a /tmp/foo$ touch a/foo /tmp/foo$ touch a/.baz /tmp/foo$ cd .. /tmp$ rsync -avP --exclude=a/* foo bar sending incremental file list created directory bar foo/ foo/a/
sent 71 bytes received 20 bytes 182.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 /tmp$ ls -la bar total 20 drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:17 . drwxrwxrwt 70 root root 12288 Jan 24 14:17 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 foo /tmp$ ls -la bar/foo total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 . drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:17 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 a /tmp$ ls -la bar/foo/a total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 . drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 .. where's .baz in the copy? how does * match .baz? /kc -- Ken Chase - k...@heavycomputing.ca skype:kenchase23 +1 416 897 6284 Toronto Canada Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W. -- 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