Re: [tlug] Rsync exclusion question

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Josh Glover writes:

 > > I don't understand why the problem was allegedly fixed by changing
 > > between " and ' quotes; perhaps we haven't heard the full story.
 > 
 > Me neither, but I think it has to do with how Doug is invoking his
 > script.

I find this is invariably because I (a) wrote a script or shell
function for unit testing, and quotes are being stripped there, or (b)
some command I thought was either a shell built-in or a real program
was replaced by a shell script, usually by a distro trying to make
something like the autofools more "user-friendly".