On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:09:18PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
There is a --files-from option precisely for that purpose! Try:
rsync -r --include-from=filt.txt --prune-empty-dirs \
--files-from=dirs.txt . destdir
(Note that you need a source argument relative to which the --files-from
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 14:23 +, Paul wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:03:05PM -0800, Steven Monai wrote:
> >$ cat >dirs.txt < >sourcedir/GroupA
> >sourcedir/GroupC
> >EOF
> >
> >$ rsync -r --include-from=filt.txt --prune-empty-dirs `cat dirs.txt` destdir
> I can't quite get that to work when
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 08:03:05PM -0800, Steven Monai wrote:
$ cat >dirs.txt <
I can't quite get that to work when the dirs have spaces in them. I've tried
various forms of backslash escaping the spaces and putting the dirs in
doublequotes, even messing with IFS, but no luck. (And I don't wan
On 2010/03/13 3:33 PM, Paul wrote:
> I want to copy only specific directories that contain specific
> filetypes, from sourcedir to destdir. For example, I want to copy all
> .mp3 and all .ogg files found in the GroupA, GroupC directories under
> /home/paul/sourcedir/. For example, if I have
>
> /h
