glob exclude vs include behaviour

[Kevin Korb]

* isn't a shell glob in this case it is a simple pattern wildcard
meaning "anything".

On 01/24/2018 02:23 PM, Ken Chase via rsync wrote:
> not a bug, buy colour me confused:
> 
>  /tmp/foo$ mkdir a
>  /tmp/foo$ touch a/foo
>  /tmp/foo$ touch a/.baz
>  /tmp/foo$ cd ..
>  /tmp$ rsync -avP --exclude=a/* foo bar
> sending incremental file list
> created directory bar
> foo/
> foo/a/
> 
> sent 71 bytes  received 20 bytes  182.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> 
>  /tmp$ ls -la bar
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x  3 user user  4096 Jan 24 14:17 .
> drwxrwxrwt 70 root root 12288 Jan 24 14:17 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  3 user user  4096 Jan 24 14:16 foo
> 
>  /tmp$ ls -la bar/foo
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:17 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 a
> 
>  /tmp$ ls -la bar/foo/a
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 ..
> 
> where's .baz in the copy?
> 
> how does * match .baz?
> 
> /kc
> 

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