CPAN mirroring exclude syntax assistance request

Paul Slootman paul+rsync at wurtel.net
Sat May 31 12:05:53 GMT 2008


On Fri 30 May 2008, David Favor wrote:
>
>    /usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --exclude '/src/***' --no-implied-dirs \
>       --delete-excluded --prune-empty-dirs ftp.funet.fi::CPAN /cpan-mirror/

When I try this (with -n added, as I have no interest in downloading all
of that), I don't see any paths beginning with /src/ being listed. The
last file listed is "scripts/text-processing/wptoascii".
What's the problem?


Paul Slootman


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