Re: trailing spaces in exclude-from file

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 1:08 AM Jürgen Bausa via rsync <
[email protected]> wrote:

> However, it didn't work in the beginning and took me some time to find
> out, that a space at the end (e.g. "+ /mnt/Windows/Users " in the second
> line) will be interpreted and thus, the directory is assumed to be "Users "
> and not "Users".


When working on some filter rules it helps to use --debug=FILTER or
--debug=FILTER2 options. (While these are implied by -vv and -vvv
respectively, it's better to be more specific in what you want to debug.)
The FILTER2 level mentions the add_rule(RULE_HERE) call where a trailing
space would be visible prior to the trailing paren, though it might not be
immediately obvious.  I've just made a change in git that makes rsync
output a warning message in either debug-filter level if there is a
trailing space or tab on a rule, which will help someone notice it if they
didn't intend to specify it.

..wayne..

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