Help needed with rsync

[bill-lancaster]

The following code:-

sudo rsync -av --exclude={'/home/bill/.DeletedFiles/*,/home/bill/.cache/*,/home/bill/.Trash-1000/*'} /home/bill/ /media/mycloud/Public/compaq
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Copies the named excluded files regardless.

Where am I going wrong?

[Schwarzer Kater]

I think the syntax should be:

sudo rsync -av --exclude={'/home/bill/.DeletedFiles/*','/home/bill/.cache/*','/home/bill/.Trash-1000/*'} /home/bill/ /media/mycloud/Public/compaq

You have left out some ' between the { }, if I am correct.

[bill-lancaster]

Thank you for the response. Yes, each folder needs to be inside '......', but I still have the same problem.

rsync -av --exclude={'~/.DeletedFiles','~/.cache','~/.Trash-1000'} /home/bill/ /media/mycloud/Public/compaq3
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The contents of the excluded files are being copied.

I believe that --exclude '~/.cache' should skip copying that folder completely but --exclude '~/.cache/*' will copy the folder but not the contents.

[bill-lancaster]

Success! --exclude item paths are relative, so:-

--exclude={'.DeletedFiles,'.cache'}

Works fine,

thanks

[jlittle]

rsync -av --exclude={'~/.DeletedFiles','~/.cache','~/.Trash-1000'} /home/bill/ /media/mycloud/Public/compaq3
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The "~" construct for your $HOME is "substituted by your shell" (from the rsync man page), and by quoting it you've turned off that shell expansion.

[oshunluvr]

Good catch!