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

From William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: rsync: exclude all, then include only specified, wildcard problems..
Date 2014-08-14 18:07 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2014-08-14, 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.

Lookup the --exclude option for rsync. I really do not understand what
you want to do, but that might help you figure out for yourself.

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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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