Re: trailing spaces in exclude-from file

Bill Campbell via rsync <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.rsync.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022, Paul Slootman via rsync wrote:
>On Mon 24 Jan 2022, Jürgen Bausa via rsync wrote:
>> 
>> However, that's just a proposal. But the behavior of trailing spaces is something I guess should be corrected.
>
>Is it?
>How would you otherwise specify a space that you *do* intend to be
>relevant?

If rsync uses pcre, then one or more \s should do it.

Bill
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