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Tweak an older NEWS item to be a bit clearer.
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Wildcards are not escaped in filename args, but they are escaped in options
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like the [`--suffix`](rsync.1#opt) and [`--usermap`](rsync.1#opt) values.
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If your rsync script depends on the old arg-splitting behavior, either run
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it with the [`--old-args`](rsync.1#opt) option or `export RSYNC_OLD_ARGS=1`
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in the script's environment. See also the [ADVANCED USAGE](rsync.1#)
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section of rsync's manpage for how to use a more modern arg style.
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If a script depends on the old arg behavior (perhaps because it quotes or
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protects the args already, or perhaps because it expects arg splitting),
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there are two easy ways to get things going with a modern rsync: either
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`export RSYNC_OLD_ARGS=1` in the script's environment (perhaps in the script
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itself) or add the option [`--old-args`](rsync.1#opt) to the rsync commands
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that are run. See also the [ADVANCED USAGE](rsync.1#) section of rsync's
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manpage for how to use a more modern arg style.
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- A long-standing bug was preventing rsync from figuring out the current
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locale's decimal point character, which made rsync always output numbers

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