On 5/15/2013 4:13 AM, Brian K. White wrote:
Consider the following directory structure
/foo/aaa/*/*
/foo/bbb/*/*
/foo/ccc/*/*
I want to sync all of /foo,
but exclude /foo/aaa
but not exclude any other occurances of "aaa" or "foo/aaa" (be they
files or dirs) that might occur within the other dirs /foo/bbb/*
/foo/ccc/* etc
I don't want to exclude /foo/bbb/aaa or /foo/ccc/111/aaa or
/foo/ccc/111/foo/aaa etc...
Destination is running rsync daemon and has a module named root that
points to "/" such that normally, for the full /foo with no exclude,
it's very simple, my rsync command would just be:
rsync -avz /foo ${DEST}::root
That works fine without the exclude.
So, to that I want to add a filter file. (Well, I assume that's what I
want)
rsync -avz -f ". filter" /foo ${DEST}::root
If I construct a filter file like this:
- aaa
+ *
or like this
- aaa/
+ *
or like this
- foo/aaa/
+ *
rsync hides the top level /foo/aaa but it also hides any other
occurrences of the exclude pattern that occur anywhere within the job
instead of just the top level one.
How can I get it to exclude just the top-level directory "/foo/aaa" ?
Never mind, I think I got it. I saw the special meaning of a leading
slash in an include/exclude pattern in the man page. So:
rsync -aznvvv --exclude '/pix/trinity/' /pix ${DEST}::root
...
[sender] hiding directory pix/trinity because of pattern /pix/trinity/
...
[sender] make_file(pix/0/trinity,*,2)
[sender] make_file(pix/0/pix/trinity,*,2)
[sender] make_file(pix/0/pix/trinity/foo,*,2)
[sender] make_file(pix/0/trinity/trinity,*,2)
So it excluded /pix/trinity/ as desired, yet included other paths that
had "/pix/trinity/" in them such as /pix/0/pix/trinity/foo"
I only need the single pattern at the moment so --exclude is simpler
than a filter file, but just for the record I verified a filter file
like this worked the same too:
- /pix/trinity/
Also please disregard the "+ *" in my previous examples. I know they are
superfluous. They were in there only because I was starting with a copy
of a different script that originally had "- *" at the bottom to include
some patterns and exclude everything else. At the moment I need the
opposite of that so when I reversed all the + & -, I ended up with a "+
*" at the bottom.
--
bkw
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