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| author | Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> | 2014-04-19 10:16:00 -0700 |
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| committer | Wayne Davison <wayned@samba.org> | 2014-04-19 10:16:00 -0700 |
| commit | 1524c2e5c73c6d237f8308afc19186e7656aaa44 (patch) | |
| tree | 50e31226e326c6a8b3e5f0be701293967138fc28 /rsync.yo | |
| parent | 0dedfbce2c1b851684ba658861fe9d620636c56a (diff) | |
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Expand the backslash description a bit more in excludes.
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@@ -2754,6 +2754,10 @@ itemization( it() a '[' introduces a character class, such as [a-z] or [[:alpha:]]. it() in a wildcard pattern, a backslash can be used to escape a wildcard character, but it is matched literally when no wildcards are present. + This means that there is an extra level of backslash removal when a + pattern contains wildcard characters compared to a pattern that has none. + e.g. if you add a wildcard to "foo\bar" (which matches the backslash) you + would need to use "foo\\bar*" to avoid the "\b" becoming just "b". it() if the pattern contains a / (not counting a trailing /) or a "**", then it is matched against the full pathname, including any leading directories. If the pattern doesn't contain a / or a "**", then it is |