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Asked: 2026-06-10T21:02:33+00:00

I’m having a hard time making an –exclude-from= file correctly exclude directories with spaces

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I’m having a hard time making an --exclude-from= file correctly exclude directories with spaces with rsync (v3.0.9 from macports).

Trying to ignore a folder named Adele - 21 [2011] flac/

Tried :

- Adele - 21 [2011] flac/
- "Adele - 21 [2011] flac/"
- "Adele\ -\ 21\ [2011]\ flac/"
- 'Adele - 21 [2011] flac/'
- 'Adele\ -\ 21\ [2011]\ flac/'

Tried -s switch.

Still not working…

EDIT : what the hell! This seems to be working :

- Adele - 21 \[2011\] flac/
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  1. Editorial Team

    Your problem is that the parameter for --exclude is a regular expression.

    This means Adele - 21 [2011] flac matches Adele - 21 followed by one of [012] followed by flac

    To fix this, you need to escape the special characters [ and ]

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