Crazy excludes

Wayne Davison
Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:31:59 -0000

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:54:53PM +0100, Matias Surdi
wrote:
>            #NEXT COMMAND, IS JUST AN "ECHO" OF THE COMMAND THAT
WILL BE
>              RUN IN NEXT STEP.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> rsync -a -v --delete --timeout 120 --exclude='/msurdi/*'
> localhost:/home/ /usr/backups/gaia.0/

Since you can see the single quotes in the output of that echo, that
means that you're excluding files that start with a single quote (i.e.
nothing).  I assume you've over-escaped your single quotes.

..wayne..