On Wed 26 Nov 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > > I do rsync -avz oldUnicelFiles hostB:/home/kaushal > --exclude-from=exclude.txt > but it rsynced the excluded files too > > my exclude.txt file contains > #################### > /home/kaushal/oldUnicelFiles/*.gz > /home/kaushal/oldUnicelFiles/*.txt > ####################
The excludes must be relative to the source; the following exclude.txt should work: /oldUnicelFiles/*.gz /oldUnicelFiles/*.txt You could leave out the directory if you want to exclude ALL *.gz and *.txt files: *.gz *.txt Paul -- 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
