Exclude directories
Dave Dykstra
dwd at bell-labs.com
Fri Feb 15 02:38:13 EST 2002
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:20:30PM -0800, Ian Kettleborough wrote:
> I am trying to exclude a few directories from being copied to a 2nd local
> hard disk. I have read the doc's, used the --exclude-from= to specify the
> filename.. but
>
> What confuses me is whether a directory listed in this file should have a
> trailing / on it or is the file completely different fro what I think it is.
>
> ie:
>
> /usr/src
>
> or
>
> /usr/src/
Either one should work. If you put a trailing slash on, it just guarantees
it is a directory as opposed to an ordinary file.
- Dave
More information about the rsync
mailing list