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-manpage(rsync)(1)(17 Feb 1999)()()
+manpage(rsync)(1)(18 Feb 1999)()()
manpagename(rsync)(faster, flexible replacement for rcp)
manpagesynopsis()
directory, not a file, link or device.
it() if the pattern contains a wildcard character from the set
- *?[ then regular expression matching is applied using the
- normal shell filename matching rules. Otherwise a simple string
- match is used.
+ *?[ then expression matching is applied using the shell filename
+ matching rules. Otherwise a simple string match is used.
it() if the pattern contains a / (not counting a trailing /) then it
is matched against the full filename, including any leading
directory. If the pattern doesn't contain a / then it is matched
- only against the final component of the filename.
+ only against the final component of the filename. Furthermore, if
+ the pattern includes a double asterisk "**" then all wildcards in
+ the pattern will match slashes, otherwise they will stop at slashes.
it() if the pattern starts with "+ " (a plus followed by a space)
then it is always considered an include pattern, even if specified as
it() --exclude "*.o" would exclude all filenames matching *.o
it() --exclude "/foo" would exclude a file in the base directory called foo
it() --exclude "foo/" would exclude any directory called foo
+ it() --exclude "/foo/*/bar" would exclude any file called bar two
+ levels below a base directory called foo
+ it() --exclude "/foo/**/bar" would exclude any file called bar two
+ or more levels below a base directory called foo
it() --include "*/" --include "*.c" --exclude "*" would include all
directories and C source files
it() --include "foo/" --include "foo/bar.c" --exclude "*" would include
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