how to catch this file name #something#

[Kevin Korb]

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I am completely confused about what you are asking for here.  Rsync
uses patterns with some special additions that are only similar to
shell globbing.  If you have a file named "#something#" then any of
the following in an exclude-from file would match it:
#something#
*#*
#*#

On 12/31/2014 05:49 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Trying to cat filenames like #something#. neither of the things I 
> thought up work.
> 
> *#* "#"*
> 
> At least the second one above does work in a ls command like:
> 
> ls "#"* #something#
> 
> I understood an exclude file would use shell globbing and such.
> 
> So what am I doing wrong?
> 

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