Hi,

It seems the leading "/" in the excluded path is interpreted as the root 
of the source directory hierarchy, in this case /home/CDs/Linux/Wine. So 
you should try
   --exclude '/wine-*'

This is explained in the rsync man page, quite a long way down, under 
"ANCHORING INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERNS".

Cheers
Ben

On 05/03/15 06:41, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to do an rsync and exclude a directory called
>
>     /home/CDs/Linux/Wine/wine-1.7.37
>
> Problem: rsync sync's it anyway, including when I remove
> the * and spell it all out.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> rsync -rv --delete --delete-excluded --modify-window=1 \
>      --times --inplace --copy-links  \
>      --exclude '/home/CDs/Linux/Wine/wine-*' \
>      /home/CDs/Linux/Wine /mnt/MyCDs/Linux/.
>
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>

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