Specifying excluding file as Environment variable

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I have a elude.txt file, that when I run rclone sync src dst --exclude-from exclude.txt works correctly, but I can't get this to work as an environment variable, such that I can run rclone sync src dst and still ignore those in elude.txt

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.66.0

  • os/version: darwin 12.7.4 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 21.6.0 (x86_64)
  • os/type: darwin
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.22.1
  • go/linking: dynamic
  • go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Irrelevant as this is all local, though I would assume it's the same in Google Drive, and all others.

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone sync src dst --exclude-from exclude.txt

and replace with

rclone sync src dst

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

{
    "DEFAULT": {
        "RCLONE_EXCLUDE": "'.DS_Store'",
        "RCLONE_EXCLUDE_FROM": "/Users/name/rclone/exclude.txt",
        "RCLONE_FILTER_FROM": "/Users/name/rclone/exclude.txt"
    },
    DRIVE INFO I AM NOT SHARING, IRRELEVANT TO THIS DISCUSSION
    }
}

As you can see, I have three attempts at trying to exclude, but no work, the exclude file is just .DS_Store

A log from the command with the -vv flag

Not sure what to put here, but on running the command with no explicit call of --exlude-from, the first output is

2024/04/17 15:45:07 DEBUG : .DS_Store: Need to transfer - File not found at Destination
Transferred:   	          0 B / 0 B, -, 0 B/s, ETA -
Elapsed time:         0.0s

so it is clearly not seeing any of these attempts at excluding the file. The rest is some couple hundred lines that I don't think are relevant

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welcome to the forum,

export RCLONE_EXCLUDE_FROM=exclude.txt
rclone ls src
  • rclone does not support DEFAULT section.
  • cannot put global flags into config file.
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Okay well now I am very confused, I did initially run this export command and it didn't work, but now running it does, suggesting that I made either a typo or something else. That is strange I can't add this to the config file, but okay I guess.

To get this working as I wanted, I then added

export RCLONE_EXCLUIIDE_FROM=exclude.txt

replacing that file with the relevant path to file, in my .zshrc file.

Thank you for your help, sorry for my error.

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welcome

check this github issue from 2018
Storing defaults for global flags in the config file

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