Re: Finding specific files/directories from a remote rsync server.

2015-04-13 Thread Hongyi Zhao
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:44:56 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > rsync -aiv --include=foo/file --include='*/' --exclude='*' > rsync.example.net::module/ /dest/ Another issue is as follows: if I have known that the `foo/file' is located under some sub-directories under a folder named `bar' in in the

Re: Finding specific files/directories from a remote rsync server.

2015-04-13 Thread Hongyi Zhao
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:44:56 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > You'd use filter (include/exclude) rules. See in the man page about its > notes on how rsync requires you to include all directories in order to > traverse the tree and you'd end up with something like this: > > rsync -aiv --include=foo/

Re: Finding specific files/directories from a remote rsync server.

2015-04-12 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Hongyi Zhao wrote: > Say, if I want to find all of the `foo/file' on this rsync server > You'd use filter (include/exclude) rules. See in the man page about its notes on how rsync requires you to include all directories in order to traverse the tree and you'd en

Finding specific files/directories from a remote rsync server.

2015-04-10 Thread Hongyi Zhao
Hi all, Suppose I have remote rsync server, named as: rsync.example.net. And I want to finding some specific files/directories from it. To do this, I must let my local rsync client to do a traversing among all of its modules and the corresponding sub-directories. Say, if I want to find all o