rsync --exclude-from-file not working

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Johan wrote:

> Good day,
> 
> rsync does load and read the file but does not act on it.
> 
> If I change the filename rsync complains.
> I must be doing something wrong.

The paths for 'exclude-from' should be relative to the root directory of 
your source.  (So, omit the '/begin/' portion of the path.)

$ cd rsync-test
$ mkdir -p begin/subdir
$ touch begin/{a,b,c,d}
$ touch begin/subdir/{x,y,z}
$ cat exclude
- b
- d
- subdir/y
$ rsync --dry-run -av --exclude-from=exclude begin/ end
sending incremental file list
created directory end
./
a
c
subdir/
subdir/x
subdir/z

sent 140 bytes  received 31 bytes  342.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)

-- 
Best,
Ben