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So I paste the man page into llm and tell it to only give me parameters that are in that page? Even if it obeyed, it would still choke on how to exclude hidden MacOS kruft files from the copy...

No, you don't need to "tell it to only give me parameters that are in that page."

Here's the entire prompt:

    I need the rsync command to copy local files from `/foo/bar` to `~/baz/qux` on my `user@example.com` server.
    Exclude macOS cruft like `.DS_Store`, etc. Here's the man page:

    <paste man page for your rsync that you copied earlier, see above>
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