On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Phil Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So I have on my server a big file tree. I want to use rsync to download
> only the PDF files, which make up a small portion of that tree. So I try
> it this way:
>
> rsync -aHPvz --include '*.pdf' --exclude '**' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:<source>
> <destination>
>
> which gives me nothing.
Hi Phil,
Your goal seems to be to create a tree that consists only of *.pdf
files and their necessary directory nodes. Right?
The closest you can get to that with standard includes/excludes is
with this combination:
--include '*/' (process/create all directory nodes)
--include '*.pdf' (include all *.pdf files)
--exclude '*' (exclude everything else)
The disadvantage is that you will get the entire tree, even the
branches with no pdf files.
rsync 2.6.0 has a new 'files-from' option which will do what you need,
but you have to create the file list yourself (easy enough to do with
the 'find' command). But you are at a disadvantage in that you are
doing a pull and may not have access to the source.
Here's a possibility. Do a --dry-run first to determine the names
of the pdf files. Grep the -v output of rsync for '\.pdf$', store
that list in a file, then do a real run with the files-from option.
I didn't try this - so I haven't verified that this will work.
--
John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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