Re: [tlug] Rsync exclusion question

[John Fremlin <john@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
> 2009/6/10 Doug McLean <dmclean635@example.com>:
>
> > Sorry, are those pound signs you're using there?  If so, why does that
> > help resolve the issue?
>
> Well, those excludes are just for Emacs backup files. You'd want:
>
> rsync -av --exclude '*.lease' ...
>
> The problem with your command is almost certainly that you used
> double-quotes, which meant that the shell will expand the *, thus
> rsync cannot glob. Simply using single quotes instead or escaping the
> * should sort it.

Which shell expands "*.leases" in double quotes!?