Re: Question on rsync with --exlude/--include

On 2008-01-30 04:29, user@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
.....
If I just use
--include lib\*.rpm \

that seems to have no effect at all, all files get downloaded. I would have expected --include to exclude everything else and run the whole
directory list with each switch incidence (???).


How can I code to download only files with lib in them, as an example?

I would actually want all files matching a short list of partly
wildcarded filenames like *dev*, *lib*, etc. Some sort of an
--exclude-unless is what I'm looking for.






I'm not that good at this usage of rsync, I mostly use it to replicate
everything, and maybe a few excludes.

My advice is to replace --exclude / --include with
--exclude-from=excludes.lst / --include-from=includes.lst

Then fill excludes.lst with your patterns on at each line,
and your "unless" cases in includes.lst , and see what it will do.

Add the option n to rsync , until it looks right, so you don't
mess anything while testing.

/bb
.

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