You need to quote the remote host:'*' like this to prevent your local shell expanding it locally instead of remotely.
Hope this helps, Tomas On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, 14:01 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > > you can use --exclude dirOrFileName multiple times - it will form a list > > From the target machine I tried to rsync all of my home directory from > salmo, except for the data/ subdirectory but my syntax is wrong. On the > source host data/ is a subdirectory under ~/. On the target host it's a > different partition, /data. > > rsync -av --exclude=data/ salmo:* . > > skips all ~/ and copies over no files. > > What's the correct syntax for this? > > Regards, > > Rich > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
