On Fri 07 Nov 2008, Richard Geoffrion wrote:
>
> > Perhaps there should be a line that explicitly says there are no
> > escape/quoting mechanisms.
>
> Is that a function of the dirvish scripts then -- as opposed to an
> underlying utility such as rsync ?
Dirvish collects the excludes and puts them in a file, and tells rsync
with --exclude-from=filename to use that file. So the exclude lines are
directly passed to rsync.
Hence, how to construct your exclude rules is also covered by the rsync
manual...
> > I suppose it also means dirvish can't deal
> > with filenames that begin or end with a space or that contain an
> > embedded newline or any other fun things one might choose to do.
> >
> Oh, well. I'll have to stop using dirvish immediately!!! all my
> filenames begin with either spaces or dashes, and yours should too!
:)
I used to have a file "-i" in directories with important files after an
unfortunate "rm * old" (instead of "rm *.old"), but now I use dirvish.
Kidding aside, a filename starting with a dash won't be a problem.
Excluding a filename starting with a space might be a challenge,
although I suspect this would work:
excludes:
[ ]rest of filename
Paul
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