Help using --exclude

[Scott Sewall]

Using "--exclude=/*/.mozilla/**/Cache/" works great.

Thanks for your help.

-- Scott

Wayne Davison wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:21:38PM -0700, Scott Sewall wrote:
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>>My hope was the exclude pattern .mozilla/**/Cache/ would prevent the
>>Cache directory and all files within it from being copied.
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>This fails in the released versions of rsync due to a bug in the exclude
>code (though the CVS version has this fixed already).  You can work
>around this bug in a number of ways, for instance, using this:
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>    --exclude=/*/.mozilla/**/Cache/
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>or this:
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>    --exclude=Cache/
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>This latter version would also exclude a "Cache" dir outsize of the
>.mozilla dir, which might not be acceptable to you.
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>..wayne..
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