Include / exclude patterns

Max Bowsher maxb at ukf.net
Thu Nov 28 18:41:01 EST 2002


Carlos Molina <cmolina at net-uno.net> wrote:

> + /etc
> + /home/cmolina
> + /var/log
> - - /*

Huh? "- -" ? Mistake again?

> rsync isn't include directories under /home and /var, because it
> exclude recursively on /*

Well sure, but it would have included dirs under /home/cmolina  and
/var/log.

The / in /* anchors to the toplevel.

Works for me, and looks like it was working for you from the output you
sent.

Max.




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