It sounds like you want: --include='/*' --exclude='/*/' but I am having
a bit of trouble understanding your goal. You are right though that an
exclude of * means exclude everything.
BTW, a second -v enables include/exclude debugging.
On 2026-01-30 08:23, Brian J. Murrell via rsync wrote:
Hi.
I want to do this:
# rsync -aSPAHX --exclude \* --link-dest=/.snapshots/daily.10/ ../daily.10/ .
so that any *files* in the /.snapshots/daily.10/ directory (but not any
directories in /.snapshots/daily.10/ and directories and files below
that) are excluded?
Using the above syntax, nothing gets copied I suppose because * matches
all of the top-level directories in /.snapshots/daily.10/ also.
Cheers,
b.
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