How to exclude multiple directories with rsync?

Geeky question:

This is what people and friends have tried:

rsync -arv --exclude "/home/john/.ccache:/home/ben/build" /home/john /media/ben/thumbdrive/

Answer:

To exclude multiple directories you just use multiple --exclude=path switches. So the command from the question properly written is as follows:

rsync -arv --exclude=.ccache --exclude=build /home/john /media/john/thumbdrive/

Note: Use relative paths with exclude. The paths are relative to the source directory, here /home/john.

A big thank you for Ubuntu forums for the same!