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In unix, everything is a file, but "rsync" doesn't agree: 

From: Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de>
Subject: Re: rsync and exclude option - not excluding the file
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:57:01 +0200
Message-ID: <dpppj2-igh.ln1@news.heiming.de> 
References: <1114254211.107352.326640@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 

In comp.os.linux.misc karthikd22@hotmail.com:
> Hello All,
> I was trying to use rsync with exclude option. Basically I am trying to
> copy contents of one folder(except one file)to another machine.

> The command I am using is
> rsync -avz -e ssh --exclude "/opt/cp4.1/etc/web.xml"
> karthikd@lxas21:/opt/cp4.1/etc/*.xml /opt/cp4.1/etc_test
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> The directory /opt/cp4.1/etc/ in lxas21 machine contains some 5-6 xml
> files.  I want to exclude only a particular file web.xml.

> When I ran the above command, the web.xml file also gets copied.
> I don't know how to avoid it.

Reading the fine manual 'man rsync' more carefully:

--exclude=PATTERN       exclude files matching PATTERN
                                ^^^^^

It says files matching pattern, not path. try "web.xml" only, if
you need more advanced file syncing through ssh, take a look at
unison.

Good luck
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