Crazy excludes

[Matias Surdi]

I'm stuck!!!

Look this command line log:

-bash-2.05b# pwd
/usr/backups
-bash-2.05b# ls
.backup.gaia.sh.swp     backup.gaia.sh
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          #NEXT COMMAND IS ENTERED BY HAND IN THE SHELL
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-bash-2.05b# rsync -a -v --delete --timeout 120 --exclude='/msurdi/*' 
localhost:/home/ /usr/backup   s/gaia.0/
Password:
receiving file list ... done
created directory /usr/backups/gaia.0
./
msurdi/
test/
test/aaa.txt

sent 75 bytes  received 195 bytes  77.14 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
-bash-2.05b# ls gaia.0/msurdi/
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        #THAT'S RIGHT, NOTHING ON /HOME/MSURDI WAS TRANSFERRED :-)
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        #NOW, LET'S TRY FROM MY SCRIPT
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-bash-2.05b# sh backup.gaia.sh
Try 1 of 3...
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            #NEXT COMMAND, IS JUST AN "ECHO" OF THE COMMAND THAT WILL BE 
              RUN IN NEXT STEP.
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rsync -a -v --delete --timeout 120 --exclude='/msurdi/*' 
localhost:/home/ /usr/backups/gaia.0/
Rotating backups...
-bash-2.05b# rm -r gaia.0
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        #NOW, I REMOVED THE "ECHO" FROM THE SCRIPT SO THAT IT GETS RUN
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-bash-2.05b# sh backup.gaia.sh
Try 1 of 3...
Password:
receiving file list ... done
created directory /usr/backups/gaia.0
./
msurdi/
msurdi/.cshrc
msurdi/.login
msurdi/.login_conf
msurdi/.mail_aliases
msurdi/.mailrc
msurdi/.profile
msurdi/.rhosts
msurdi/.shrc
test/
test/aaa.txt

sent 253 bytes  received 4649 bytes  1400.57 bytes/sec
total size is 3925  speedup is 0.80
Rotating backups...
-bash-2.05b#

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#DAMN!DAMN!DAMN! - IF THE COMMAND IS EXACTLY THE SAME, ON THE SAME HOST 
¿WHY RSYNC BEHAVES DIFFERENTLY IF IT'S RUN FROM THE COMMAND LINE OR FROM 
A SHELL SCRIPT?
I'M THINKING THAT MAYBE COULD BE SOMETHING RELATED TO ANY ENVIROMENT 
VARIABLE.
IF YOU WISH, I COULD POST THE ENTIRE SHELL SCRIPT SOURCE
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Thanks everybody in advance.

Matias.