> From: "Ian! D. Allen" <idal...@idallen.ca> > To: rs...@lists.samba.org > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:20:37 -0400 > Subject: purge-empty-dirs and max-file-size confusion > I want to use --min-size to copy just large files (and their necessary > parent directories), but everything I've tried copies *all* the source > directories, and creates them empty on the destination even if they > don't have any big files in them. I only want the minimal directory > hierarchies that contain the big files. This doesn't work: > > $ rm -rf /tmp/foo > $ rsync -ai --min-size 10M --prune-empty-dirs /home/idallen/test /tmp/foo > cd+++++++++ test/ > cd+++++++++ test/dir1/ > cd+++++++++ test/dir2/ > cd+++++++++ test/dir3/ > cd+++++++++ test/dir4/ > >f+++++++++ test/dir4/BIGFILE > cd+++++++++ test/dir5/ > >f+++++++++ test/dir5/BIGFILE > cd+++++++++ test/dir6/ > >f+++++++++ test/dir6/BIGFILE > > Wrong. I don't want all those dir1, dir2, dir3 empty directories. > I don't want *any* empty directories, at any level. > What am I missing?
Have you tried --no-dirs? Felipe -- 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
