You should find if you remove the -n option that it actually does copy the directories. The dry-run option has a few cases that don't completely reflect what happens without it, and this is one of them.
- Dave Dykstra On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:37:00PM +0100, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > > Hi! > > playing with --include, --exclude, and --exclude-from=file I found these > not working: > > xcnlm00s:/etc/adsm/script # rsync -navx --include="*/" --exclude="*" -e > ssh newsfeed:/ > receiving file list ... done > wrote 29 bytes read 28605 bytes 3014.11 bytes/sec > total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 > > xcnlm00s:/etc/adsm/script # rsync -navx --exclude="*" --include="*/" -e > ssh newsfeed:/ > receiving file list ... done > wrote 29 bytes read 44 bytes 13.27 bytes/sec > total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 > > shouln't the first of these deliver all directories found on host > newsfeed? > > Using a exclude/include file the same Problem arose: > newsfeed.lst: > + */ > - * > > xcnlm00s:/etc/adsm/script # rsync -navx --exclude-from=newsfeed.lst -e ssh > newsfeed:/ > receiving file list ... done > wrote 29 bytes read 28605 bytes 3014.11 bytes/sec > total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 > > newsfeed.lst: > + * > - */ > > xcnlm00s:/etc/adsm/script # rsync -navx --exclude-from=newsfeed.lst -e ssh > newsfeed:/ > receiving file list ... done > wrote 29 bytes read 28605 bytes 3014.11 bytes/sec > total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 > > Same. But in "man rsync" is stated: > If you end an exclude list with --exclude ?*?, note that since the > algorithm is applied recursively that unless > you explicitly include parent directories of files you want to include > then the algorithm will stop at the par? > ent directories and never see the files below them. To include all > directories, use --include ?*/? before the > --exclude ?*?. > > Thus I would expect the first to include all directories, but no files. > But both versions exclude all directories and files! > > -- > Thomas > > > > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
