rsync - How to exclude folder with spaces

/System Volume Information

[Nutter]

I'm running an rsync script, but need to figure out how to exclude a certain folder.

The script mounts a share on my XP computer through SMBFS, rsyncs, and then unmounts. On that share is a /Recycled folder and /System Volume Information folder. The Recycled was easy enough to exclude using --exclude-file=whatever and putting /Recycled in the whatever file.

But how do I exclude the /System Volume Information folder? Wrapping in quotes doesn't seem to work, although that may just be my habit of using Windows showing through.

[SeanW]

Did you try

--exclude "System\ Volume\ Information"

?

It also looks like patterns are matched, so failing that,

--exclude "System*Information"

Sean

[wheel]

Yeah, putting a backslash in front of the space tells linux to interpret the next character literally - so slash space should do it.