Hi,
in a bash shell script I have a rsync command as follows:
rsync -av \
--exclude ".svn" \
--exclude ".cache" \
$src $dest
Because I need the command twice I thought about removing the exclude patterns from the command itself and place it in a variable. Thus only one list must maintained and I can place it at the beginning of the script. My new version looks like:
exclude_list='.svn .cache'
rsync_exclude=''
for i in $exclude_list; do rsync_exclude="${rsync_exclude}--exclude \"${i}\" "; done
rsync $rsync_exclude $src $dest
However here the exclude list doesn't work. I guess there is something wrong with the substitution but don't know the reason.
A
echo "rsync -av $rsync_exclude $src $dest"
and copying the output to the command line works well.
Can someone help on this?
Thank you in advance.