Thanks a lot Matt! All files are transferring now. It however shows an error as follows:-
rsync: failed to set permissions on "/var/log/Wlog/TEST/.": Operation not permitted (1) Please advise Matt McCutchen-7 wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 12:07 -0700, Meeaz wrote: >> If I run the following command using include option, it does not copy the >> first file from under "/opt/bea/test " directory >> >> rsync -arv --include /opt/bea/test/z* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/Wlog/TEST >> >> Note that the rest of the files are copied. Where am I going wrong? > > Do this: > > rsync -arv --include='/z*' --exclude='/*' /opt/bea/test/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/Wlog/TEST > > Include/exclude rules do not take the place of source arguments > like /opt/bea/test/ ; rather, they make rsync skip some of the files > specified by the source arguments. All an "include" rule does is > override later "exclude" rules. Thus, the literal meaning of the > command above is to send all of /opt/bea/test/ but skip all top-level > files that do not begin with "z", which amounts to what you want. See > the "FILTER RULES" section of the man page for much more information. > > Your command sent most of the files because you let the shell expand the > wildcard; the first file became the include pattern (which had no > effect) and the rest became source arguments. Prevent the shell from > doing that by quoting the wildcard. > > Matt > > > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/rsync-using-wildcard-%28*%29-character-tp17536197p17561906.html Sent from the Samba - rsync mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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