Thanks Tony; On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 14:49 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 10:27 AM -0400 6/17/07, William Case wrote: > >Hi; an addendum; > >On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 09:07 -0400, William Case wrote: > >> Hi; > >> > >> I have the following directory in my user home directory: > >> [root@CASE ~]# ls -al /home/bill/.dbus > >> total 24 > >> drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2006-11-30 22:33 . > >> drwxr-xr-x 71 bill bill 4096 2007-06-17 08:38 .. > >> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-06-09 14:18 session-bus > >> > >> Is that .dbus directory supposed to be there? Is it likely I copied it > >> to ~/ some time ago by accident? Can I remove it? > > > >If I can't remove it (it seems connected to SELinux in some way) why > >won't the following work ? > > [bill@CASE ~]$rsync -auH --del --filter=-/home/bill/.dbus > > -n /home/bill/ /backup/bill/ > > invalid modifier sequence at 'h' in filter rule: > > -/home/bill/.dbus > > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at exclude.c(777) > > [client=2.6.9] > > According to the rsync man page, you need a " " or "_" between the rule and > path. A "_" may be easier than quoting the argument. > > $rsync -auH --del --filter=-_/home/bill/.dbus -n /home/bill/ /backup/bill/ Thanks for the correction. I misunderstood what 'man' was telling me. First I'll get the filter working. Just to learn how filters should work, then I'll try rsync with the ~/.dbus removed. -- Regards Bill
