I was under the impression that --include and --exclude worked by matching
patterns in the order given, and whichever matched first, whether that was
an include or exclude determined the action for that file. I have a big
directory from which I am attempting to transfer selected files. I want
all files where the first level directory is anything, the second level
directory is "2005" and the third level is the file "07.tar.bz2". So I
started with these options (different tries on each line):
--include '**/2005/07.tar.bz2' --exclude '**'
--include '**/2005/07.tar.bz2' --exclude '*'
--include '*/2005/07.tar.bz2' --exclude '**'
--include '*/2005/07.tar.bz2' --exclude '*'
I also tried numerous other random variations. Either I get absolutely no
files at all matching, or I get everything in the entire directory tree to
match.
I hope what I want is clear to you. How can I make it clear to rsync?
I've had several other cases of this in the past, and stumbled on something
that worked without really understanding why. So I guess the explanations
in the man page just didn't really give me the correct understanding of how
this works. Maybe someone can try explaining in another way.
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