Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Then maybe you want to take only entirely numeric files (the exact
> opposite of your original scenario) rather than all files except
> entirely alphabetic ones. To do that, you should replace
> --include='/nntp/**[!a-zA-Z]*' --exclude='/nntp/**' with
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 15:52 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> None of these seem to get to the wanted files:
>
> rsync -navv --prune-empty-dirs --exclude='/nntp/**/' \
> --include='/nntp/**[!a-zA-Z]*' --exclude='/nntp/**' \
> ~/projects/backup/rsync/nntp ./here/
The first filter needs t
Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>> I've tried lots of combination of slashes and ** but it looks to me
>> like those shown above should work.
>
> By analogy to the other case, those filter rules should exclude files
> whose names are entirely alphabetic, and they seem to be doin
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 11:08 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>--include='/nntp/**[!a-zA-Z]*' --exclude='/nntp/**'
> (run in dry run mode to study the output):
:)
> rsync -navv--include='/nntp/**[!a-zA-Z]*' \
> --exclude='/nntp/**'
> ~/projects/backup/rsync/nntp ./
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> To get the rules to apply only in ~/News, anchor the patterns and use
>> the ** syntax to match anything below ~/News. The patterns are matched
>> against files' full paths from ~, but the first pattern accepts a
>> non-n
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 17:02 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> One further aspect of this that would be nice to solve too, is that
> using that technique in this case means that rsync has to check
> something like 550,000 (literally) messages to get thru a sync.
>
> That number will dwindle to a fr
Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To get the rules to apply only in ~/News, anchor the patterns and use
> the ** syntax to match anything below ~/News. The patterns are matched
> against files' full paths from ~, but the first pattern accepts a
> non-numeric character only in the basen
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 10:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Further, how would I define files with numbers for names?
> As I understand it, exclude files do not understand regular
> expressions.
Correct, exclude patterns are globs, and there's no glob that matches
files whose names consist enti
I want rsync to do this:
Backup all files under ~/, except in some cases.
When rsync gets to ~/News, which has an extensive, fluctuating and
deep heirarchy of directories under it. An example might be:
News/agent/nntp/news.gmane.org/gmane/comp/lang/perl/beginners/
I want to skip any files th
