rsync - Jun 2010 - DO NOT REPLY [Bug 7523] New: rsync exclude file ignores spaces

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7523

           Summary: rsync exclude file ignores spaces
           Product: rsync
           Version: 2.6.8
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: dfwjim2000 at yahoo.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


Using the FAQ page at rsync, using tips on the commandline with --excludehaving
spaces in the file-spec pattern for --exclude, seem to be ignored by
--exclude-from inside the exclude file.  I used all types of space escaping
techniques:  questionmark, single \, the triple \\\, combinations of single
&
double quoting.

the only way I can get the path to exclude is to cut it off at the first
instance of space with a *, however this may cut off similarly named
directories.  This needs to be fixed.


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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7523


wayned at samba.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WORKSFORME




------- Comment #1 from wayned at samba.org  2010-06-19 00:28 CST -------
This works fine.  There is no need for any escaping inside an exclude-from file
since spaces have no special meaning (apart from the plus/minus prefixes that
are separated by a single space).


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