* isn't a shell glob in this case it is a simple pattern wildcard meaning "anything".
On 01/24/2018 02:23 PM, Ken Chase via rsync wrote:
> not a bug, buy colour me confused:
>
> /tmp/foo$ mkdir a
> /tmp/foo$ touch a/foo
> /tmp/foo$ touch a/.baz
> /tmp/foo$ cd ..
> /tmp$ rsync -avP --exclude=a/* foo bar
> sending incremental file list
> created directory bar
> foo/
> foo/a/
>
> sent 71 bytes received 20 bytes 182.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
>
> /tmp$ ls -la bar
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:17 .
> drwxrwxrwt 70 root root 12288 Jan 24 14:17 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 foo
>
> /tmp$ ls -la bar/foo
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:17 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 a
>
> /tmp$ ls -la bar/foo/a
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Jan 24 14:16 ..
>
> where's .baz in the copy?
>
> how does * match .baz?
>
> /kc
>
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