> From: "ToddAndMargo" <[email protected]>
> To: "SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS" <[email protected]>
> Sent: 7. March 2015 05:40:43
> Subject: Re: need rsync exclude help
>
>> --exclude='{wine-*,wine-1.7.24}' /home/CDs/Linux /mnt/MyCDs/.
>>
>
> I am not real certain that the {} thingy works correctly.
> Anyway, I only needed 'wine-*'
That seems redundant in this case. You can always test such expansions using
'echo'
$ echo {wine-*,wine-1.7.24}
wine-* wine-1.7.24
$ echo wine-{1.7.24,package-1.2.3}
wine-1.7.24 wine-package-1.2.3
Here I also added a little demonstration of how the {} expansion can work.
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kind regards,
David SOmmerseth
