--exclude with whitespace

[Matt McCutchen]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:09 +0200, Philippe Niquille wrote:
> I am using the default rsync 2.6.3 on OS X 10.5.3 and having issues  
> with my exclude options. I want to exclude a directory which has  
> whitespace in its name e.g. "My Directory" by adding --exclude="My  
> Directory" as a relative path. Now this exclude filter only works when  
> the name does not contain a whitespace.

Please try a modern version of rsync.  The standard rsync 3.0.0 and
newer can preserve much of the same metadata that the Apple-modified
rsync 2.6.3 does.

Matt
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