How do you exclude a directory that is a symlink?

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sun Mar 5 18:35:06 UTC 2017


On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Steve Dondley <s at dondley.com> wrote:

> However, if I add a --copy-links option to the command, it appears to
> override my "exclude" directive and the contents of the symlinked directory
> gets downloaded anyway.
>

The use of --copy-links doesn't do that, so mention what your args and
paths are and we can figure out what you're seeing.

..wayne..
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