rsync - Dec 2005 - double / on --exclude flag cuse the path not to be excluded

Hi,
i found out that if you are using the following command:
rsync -aHvS --exclude /root//Desktop/ /root /tmp/kuku

the Desktop Dir will not be excluded.

but if i use:
rsync -aHvS --exclude /root/Desktop/ /root /tmp/kuku1
the Desktop Dir will be excluded.

the rsync version that i find it is:
rsync  version 2.6.6  protocol version 29

-KC
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 03:09:14PM +0200, Kfir Cohen
wrote:
> rsync -aHvS --exclude /root//Desktop/ /root /tmp/kuku
> 
> the Desktop Dir will not be excluded.
That''s correct -- rsync will never construct a pathname that contains a
double slash, so the path will never match a pattern that contains a
double slash.

..wayne..

thank you for your quick response.
How can i ad this to your bugzilla project?
--KC

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???: Wayne Davison [mailto:wayned@samba.org]
????: ? 28/12/2005 12:46
??: Kfir Cohen
???? ??????: rsync@lists.samba.org
????: Re: double / on --exclude flag cuse the path not to be excluded



On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 03:09:14PM +0200, Kfir Cohen
wrote:
> rsync -aHvS --exclude /root//Desktop/ /root /tmp/kuku
>
> the Desktop Dir will not be excluded.
That''s correct -- rsync will never construct a pathname that contains a
double slash, so the path will never match a pattern that contains a
double slash.

..wayne..

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:52 -0500, Kfir Cohen wrote:
> thank you for your quick response.
> How can i ad this to your bugzilla project?
> --KC
> > rsync -aHvS --exclude /root//Desktop/ /root /tmp/kuku
> > the Desktop Dir will not be excluded.
Rsync is behaving correctly by not excluding /root/Desktop since this
folder does not match the double slashes in the exclude pattern.  This
is not a bug.  If, in writing a script, you need double-slash exclude
paths to match (single-slash) files, run the exclude paths through sed
-re ''s./+./.g'' or similar before passing them to rsync.
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Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:52 -0500, Kfir Cohen wrote:
>> thank you for your quick response.
>> How can i ad this to your bugzilla project?
>> --KC
>>> rsync -aHvS --exclude /root//Desktop/ /root /tmp/kuku
>>> the Desktop Dir will not be excluded.
> 
> Rsync is behaving correctly by not excluding /root/Desktop since this
> folder does not match the double slashes in the exclude pattern.  This
> is not a bug.  If, in writing a script, you need double-slash exclude
> paths to match (single-slash) files, run the exclude paths through sed
> -re ''s./+./.g'' or similar before passing them to rsync.
Almost all application and binaries on linux discount the double slashes.
try to change dir with double slash or even tar cp , they all dont car 
how much slash you have. if there are two slashes and there no dir 
between them they remove on of the slash.

-KC

On Thu 29 Dec 2005, Kfir Cohen wrote:
> Almost all application and binaries on linux discount the double slashes.
> try to change dir with double slash or even tar cp , they all dont car 
> how much slash you have. if there are two slashes and there no dir 
> between them they remove on of the slash.
This is a bogus argument.

"rsync /path//to/file wherever:" will work just fine, ignoring the
double slash. That is similar to what you''re giving as examples.

However, the exclude is special, as it matches against a certain text.
Compare it to this:

$ find /etc -wholename /etc//passwd -print
$

That won''t find anything either, simply because "find" will
never find
a path with a double slash in it.


Just fix your script....


Paul Slootman