Fails to work at all when failing to ls inaccessible file/folder

[1dolla]

$ adbsync --show-progress pull /storage/emulated/0/  0/
ADB line not captured
ls: /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/.metadata/HighLight.meta: Permission denied
Exiting
$ adbsync --show-progress --exclude DCIM/.metadata pull /storage/emulated/0/ 0/
ADB line not captured
ls: /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/.metadata/HighLight.meta: Permission denied
Exiting

[runderwo]

Same with VLC app data:
$ adbsync -L --show-progress --exclude storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.videolan.vlc/files/medialib pull /sdcard/ ./sdcard-$(date +%Y%m%d)
ADB line not captured
ls: /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.videolan.vlc/files/medialib: Permission denied
Exiting