On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 15:38 -0700, Jacob Weber wrote:
> Is it possible to call rsync and tell it to use a filter file if it
> exists, but otherwise continue without errors?
>
> If I pass "--filter=. .rsync-filter", it will fail if .rsync-filter
> doesn't exist.
>
> I know you can pass "--filter=: /.rsync-filter" to search for filter
> files in each directory. That won't fail if there aren't any such
> files. But I'm only interested in one file at the root.
No, rsync does not have such a feature. It could be added, but I would
be skeptical of letting the filter support grow organically into
something unmanageable; I'd rather see it replaced with a full scripting
language once and for all.
For now, you can test for the filter file in the script calling rsync.
Here's the syntax for bash:
filter_opt=()
if [ -e .rsync-filter ]; then
filter_opt=("--filter=. .rsync-filter")
fi
rsync ... "${filter_o...@]}" ...
--
Matt
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