On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Nishikant Kapoor wrote: > I am trying to fetch a single dir using the following command but all I > get is a empty dir: > > rsync -av www.myServer.com::myStuff --include=myDir --exclude=* .
Includes are tricky that way -- you told it to just include the directory, but you didn't tell it to include anything within the directory. This is because --exclude=* excludes everything at every level that didn't get explicitly mentioned (I'm assuming you protected the '*' so that it didn't get expanded by the shell). The easiest way to accomplish what you want is to do to just name the directory without using the include/exclude options: rsync -av www.myServer.com::myStuff/myDir . If you want to use include & exclude, you could do this: rsync -av www.myServer.com::myStuff --include=/myDir --exclude=/* . This tells rsync to only exclude the items at the base of the path that are not myDir, not all items at all levels. Alternately, you could do this: rsync -av www.myServer.com::myStuff --include=/myDir** --exclude=* Where you explicitly include everything within myDir (the "**" matches slashes, so it includes subdir content as well, and the initial '/' is required for it to match the whole path). ..wayne..
