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Re: rsync: exclude all, then include only specified, wildcard problems..

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RichieHH <rileyrg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 20, 2013 11:16:42 AM UTC+2, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> > David <david@55952163-3189045.bogus.domain.invalid> writes:
> > 
> > > I am trying to write a shell script to use rsync to sync certain files to 
> > > another location on the same computer. (The files are checked out from a
> > > subversion repository into the source location and need to be transferred 
> > > to their final location, and have ownership and permission changes.)
> > >
> > > Just in case something has inadvertently found its way into the source
> > > location that shouldn't have (eg, a file that was checked in in the wrong
> > > place or some other human error), I want to essentially first of all 
> > > exclude everything in the source folder from being synced, and then 
> > > explicitly allow only the folder hierarchies that are supposed to be 
> > > synced.
> > 
> > That seems like a weird way to do it.  Why not just copy the directories
> > you're interested in, each in a separate call to rsync (or cp)?

> because that would be somewhat silly when it can be done in one sweep
> and you dont need to specifically specify each directory you're
> interested in.

Rsync's documentation states that plural directories can be specified
on its command line, so you should be able to do the following for this
example:

app1/src
app1/obj
app1/xml

rsync app1/src app1/obj app1/xml user@machine:/other-location/app1/

and it should just sync the "src/obj/xml" subdirs.

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Re: rsync: exclude all, then include only specified, wildcard problems.. RichieHH <rileyrg@gmail.com> - 2014-08-14 09:25 -0700
  Re: rsync: exclude all, then include only specified, wildcard problems.. William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-08-14 18:07 +0000
  Re: rsync: exclude all, then include only specified, wildcard problems.. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-14 18:20 +0000
  Re: rsync: exclude all, then include only specified, wildcard problems.. MarkA <someone@somewhere.invalid> - 2014-08-14 21:53 +0000

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