Putting /tmp/* instead of /tmp in the excluding filelist works.
Thanks Dave.
Magda
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Dykstra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 5:32 PM
> To: Magdalena Hewryk
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: --include vs --exclude-form
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 04:28:08PM -0500, Magdalena Hewryk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am still having a problem with excluding ../tmp directory
> but copy over
> > ../tmp/content.html file and ../tmp/index.html.
> >
> > I can't --exclude "*" --include "tmp/" --include
> "tmp/content.html". I
> > simply cannot exclude "*" for I have 10000 directories to
> be updated and I
> > cannot include them with --include option.
> >
> >
> > The syntax below doesn't give me the result I want.
> > /usr/local/bin/rsync --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync --rsh
> > "/usr/bin/rsh" -av --backup --suffix=_prom+
> > --include-from=/export/app/infilelist
> > --exclude-from=/export/app/outfilelist/
> >
> > outfilelist
> > /tmp
> >
> > infilelist
> > content.html
> > index.html
> >
> > Any advise?
>
>
> You have to include a parent directory in order to include a
> file. Is it
> just that you want to exclude all the other files in /tmp?
> Using /tmp/* in
> outfilelist should work for that.
>
> - Dave Dykstra
>
