Prevent exclude pattern globbing

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ UNDER WORK
 RECENT CHANGES
 --------------
 
+- Prevent exclude pattern globbing before the pattern reaches the rsync cmd
 - Fixed some missing child pids for time control to work
 - Prevent creation of a sync-id less log file when DEBUG is set
 - Added a sequential run batch script that can rerun failed batches

README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 osync 0.99RC4
 =============
 
-A two way filesync script with fault tolerance, resuming, deletion backup and conflict backups.
+A two way filesync script with fault tolerance, resuming, deletion backup and conflict backups running on linux and virtually any system supporting bash.
 File synchronization is bidirectional, based on rsync, and can be run manually, by cron, or triggered via inotifytools (whenever a file changes on master, a file sync is triggered).
 
 ## About

osync.sh

@@ -722,6 +722,7 @@ function CheckMinimumSpace
 
 function RsyncExcludePattern
 {
+	set -f
         OLD_IFS=$IFS
         IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR
         for excludedir in $RSYNC_EXCLUDE_PATTERN
@@ -734,6 +735,7 @@ function RsyncExcludePattern
                 fi
         done
         IFS=$OLD_IFS
+	set +f
 }
 
 function RsyncExcludeFrom