I am trying to exclude "Mendeley Desktop" directory for rsync.
The exclude-from= is as:
Downloads
*.o
*.iso
Dropbox
Documents/Mendeley\ Desktop
but rsync is still backing up the Mendeley Desktop.
How I can make rsync to ignore the directories with space?
Best Answer
Remove the
\
from before the space. An escaped space is used to stop the shell splitting at spaces. As you are using a file to list your excluded directories and files then the wordsMendeley Desktop
will never pass through the shell and therefore will not need escaping. If you were listing them on the command line with--exclude
then you'd need to escape the space.Use: