On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 07:16:26PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: | 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?
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. I was not including that first --include '*/' for the directories. I was under the impression rsync simply created directories "as needed". | 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. Maybe a feature like "--make-needed-directories" would do well. Of course for directories that exist at the source, using the same metadata should still be done. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
