[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:
>
Hello,
I'm attempting to update many of my rsync scripts and was trying to
hide/exclude absolute files/directories from being sync'd. After
reading through the man page section on FILTER RULES, their modifiers,
etc., and the mailing list, it seems like the following simple example
should work.
I