rsync --delete not working (no wildcards)

[Stewart Jeacocke]

>>On 01/28/13 17:02, Stewart Jeacocke wrote:
>> I'm trying to copy some directories with rsync and would like to
>> delete files from the destination if they no longer exist in the
>> source.
>>
>> I'm using the following command:
>>
>> rsync -v --archive --hard-links --delete --force
>> --filter=':/.rsync-filter' /opt/ /mnt/backup/opt/
>>
>> /opt does not contain any files the destination contains one file
>>
>> stewart at attobeast:/etc$ ls /mnt/backup/opt/ test-file
>>
>> after running the rsync command I would expect test-file to have
>> been deleted but it isn't. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious
>> in the man page that explains this behaviour but I can't figure it
>> out. Can anyone enlighten me?

>On 01/28/13 15:45:39 MST, Kevin Korb  wrote:
>Is there any output?  How about with an additional -v ?
>Is there a .rsync-filter file anywhere?

Thanks for your help Kevin. Adding -v -v revealed it was a
.rysnc-filter file that was causing the mischief

attobeast:/# rsync -v -v --archive --hard-links --delete --force
--filter=': /.rsync-filter' /opt/ /mnt/backup/opt/
sending incremental file list
delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file
[generator] protecting file test-file because of pattern /mnt/*/**
[per-dir .rsync-filter]
total: matches=0  hash_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=0

sent 29 bytes  received 15 bytes  88.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

changing to using --delete-excluded made rsync behave in the way I wanted