RegExpr in ---exclude

[tim.conway at philips.com]

I was waiting for someone more knowledgeable to respond, as the specific 
example you gave is covered and approved in the documentation, but i saw 
the "test" message sent less than 6 hours later, so I figure you must be 
under the gun.  From the man page:
   o    if the pattern contains a wildcard character  from  the
          set  *?[  then expression matching is applied using the
          shell  filename  matching  rules.  Otherwise  a  simple
          string match is used.
Your pattern fits this description, so it looks like you might have found 
a bug.  rsync does not support regular expressions, but rather a 
simplified set of matching rules.  There has been some talk about adding 
regex, but that's a big project.  What you show, though, is not a regular 
expression, but a shell pattern, which should work with rsync if you fix 
the syntax:
          --exclude=PATTERN       exclude files matching PATTERN

SunOS 5.7           Last change: 25 Jan 2002                    6

User Commands                                            rsync(1)

Change 
rsync --exclude "/path/to/*/[Ff][Oo][Ll][Dd][Ee][Rr]"
to
rsync --exclude=/path/to/*/[Ff][Oo][Ll][Dd][Ee][Rr]
and try again.  Frankly, I'm surprised you didn't get a usage message from 
that one.

Note that I removed the quotes.  They are not necessary, since you won't 
get any shell globbing of your pattern, because of the pattern being 
connected to "--exclude" by "=".  The quotes won't break anything, so you 
can leave them in.

Tim Conway
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"J.Strohschnitter" <svebu at gmx.de>
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Hi there,

is it possible to use regular expressions in the exclude-paramter of rsync 
?
For example:

rsync --exclude "/path/to/*/[Ff][Oo][Ll][Dd][Ee][Rr]"

I've tried it, but it will take no effect.


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