feature request: exclude from path

[Matt Stevens]

So I've gotten excluding paths to work as a standalone command. When I 
paste this into a script however, it ignores the exclusions. Any advice?

rsync -aXvr --times --links 
--exclude={'*.vdi','*.vmdk','*.ova','*.qcow2','.config/discord/'} 
/home/path/ user at nas:/NAS/HOME/destination/

Are there supposed to be some kind of brackets around this?


Regards,
Matt Stevens

On 8/2/20 10:19 AM, Andy Smith via rsync wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 10:10:49PM -0400, Matt Stevens via rsync wrote:
>> I lack development skills. Would there be a way for rsync to be passed an
>> option to exclude a specific path during a sync operaton? All of my attempts
>> to use exclude have failed, as it does not respect paths, only filetypes.
> The existing --exclude and filter file options work for me for this.
> Maybe show us what you're doing (command line), what you expect to
> happen and what actually happens?
>
> You absolutely can exclude paths. The exclude and filter options are
> very expressive. I've been doing it for years.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>