rsync exclude any filename containing a colon -- how????
 

Hi

I'm using rsync, and all I want to do is exclude any file which has a colon in its name.

(It's necessary because the destination is a windows box.)

I've seen a forum posting about this issue which says just a simple

--exclude '*:*'

will work.

But it just doesn't, nor does any variation that I can think of.

I've been hours at it, it seems like it should be so simple. Argh!

I can't tell you how grateful I will be if you can help me solve this.

i think that should work

rsync -avz ./* --exclude='*:*' <destination>

solution
 

The moment I post, I get the answer -- for me at least.

Don't use the quotes!

--exclude=*:*

works.

i just checked what you wanted to do and it works for me ,you have to put singlequotes and an equalto,which you didnot i guess.