I need to get around the requirement of --exclude=* to have all the parent directories of the files and directories that are to be included. So given the file..
/startdirectory/subdirectory1/subdirectory2/filetobecopied I need to include / /subdirectory1 /subdirectory1/subdirectory2 I could just include the entire directory structure , but alternatively just include the needed paths. So the question is how can I extract every parent directory of this path? I tried writing a recursive routine that accepts /startdirectory as $1 and the pathname of filetobecopied as $2. Here is latest incarnation, which doesn't work right, of course. #!/bin/sh rootpath="$1" subpath="$2" if [ $rootpath -ef $subpath ] then echo "end of recursion" echo $subpath else echo $subpath SUBDIRECTORY=$(/usr/bin/dirname $subpath) echo $SUBDIRECTORY /root/scripts/subdirname $SUBDIRECTORY fi -- Maurice Volaski, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
