rsync - Mar 2010 - rsync --exclude-from-file not working

Good day,

rsync does load and read the file but does not act on it.

If I change the filename rsync complains.
I must be doing something wrong.

I use a laptop. Opensuse 11.2,
 rsync >  version 3.0.6  protocol version 30.

I created the following to test..
In .. /home/johan/ a dir rysnc-tst. In that 2 dirs.. begin .. end and a
file exclude. Also a script for rsync.

In dir.. begin 4 files named a, b, c, d.

exclude file..
- b
- /begin/d

no space minus space d no space enter. Same with other.
Tried various ways. none work.

rsync -av --exclude-from=exclude begin/ end.

All files get copied, every time.

Tried same in ubuntu 9,10. Same.

Kindly please what am I doing wrong.
Thanks
Regards
Johan Sch

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Johan wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> rsync does load and read the file but does not act on it.
> 
> If I change the filename rsync complains.
> I must be doing something wrong.
The paths for 'exclude-from' should be relative to the root directory of
your source.  (So, omit the '/begin/' portion of the path.)

$ cd rsync-test
$ mkdir -p begin/subdir
$ touch begin/{a,b,c,d}
$ touch begin/subdir/{x,y,z}
$ cat exclude
- b
- d
- subdir/y
$ rsync --dry-run -av --exclude-from=exclude begin/ end
sending incremental file list
created directory end
./
a
c
subdir/
subdir/x
subdir/z

sent 140 bytes  received 31 bytes  342.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00 (DRY RUN)

-- 
Best,
Ben