On Sun 02 Feb 2014, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>
> But I've tried the following methodes based on your suggestion and get
> different results:
>
> ------------
> werner@debian:~$ rsync -a --exclude '/*/*/*/*'
> rsync://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian | wc -l
> 1798
> werner@debian:~$ rsync -a --exclude '/*/*/*/**'
> rsync://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian | wc -l
> 1798
> werner@debian:~$ rsync -a --exclude '/*/*/*/***'
> rsync://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian | wc -l
> 1631
> ------------
>
> As you can see, the first two give same results, but the third, i.e.,
> the one you gives, give a different result. Why does this happen?
>From the manpage:
* a trailing "dir_name/***" will match both the directory (as if
"dir_name/" had been specified) and everything in the directory
(as if "dir_name/**" had been specified). This behavior was
added in version 2.6.7.
Paul
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