rsync - Apr 2005 - Expressions in --exclude-from file

Greetings --

I just downloaded and compiled rsync 2.6.4, which has the much-coveted 
--remove-sent-files option!
Thank you for adding this feature. I use

    rsync -rutvn --exclude-from=nosync --remove-sent-files /ssa/TV/2005/ 
/tv1/2005/

to move files selectively to a storage computer, but I want to avoid 
including files that are currently
being captured. When I include today and a great relative yesterday like 
this

    *$(date +%F)*
    *$(date --date="-1 day" +%F)*

in the nosync file, files like 2005-04-03_19:00_KCBS_60_Minutes.txt 
still get included. I then try

    rsync -rutvn --exclude=$(date +%F) --exclude=$(date --date="-1
day"
+%F) --exclude-from=/ssa/TV/scripts/nosync --remove-sent-files 
/ssa/TV/2005/ /tv1/2005/

which works, but the strings are long and rsynch appears not to allow \ 
to break a long line (?)
Wouldn't it be useful to allow expressions in the exclude file?

David

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:30:52PM -0700, David Liontooth
wrote:
> Wouldn't it be useful to allow expressions in the exclude file?
I don't think so.  And with the per-dir filter rules from 2.6.4, adding
expressions would be a security problem (allowing arbitrary commands to
be run on the remote system).
> rsync appears not to allow \ to break a long line (?)
No, that's a shell idiom.  Rsync doesn't allow any continuation lines in
its filter/include/exclude files.

..wayne..