rsync - Mar 2006 - Fwd: Delete some excluded files in rsync

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
> Date: 7 March 2006 18:01:43
> To: Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
> Subject: Delete some excluded files in rsync
>
> Hello
>
> I suggest that a feature be added into rsync. That one could  
> separately
> specify excluded files that should be deleted on the receiver and
> excluded files that shouldn't be deleted on the receiver.
>
> I am using rsync for remote updating of my website
> http://ronja.twibright.com
> and this feature would be handy because some files are generated on
> the server because cannot be generated on the laptop where the files
> are edited, and shouldn't be deleted. The remaining excluded files
> should be deleted on the receiver if they got accidentally copied  
> in the
> past, for example becaue the rsync script wasn't tuned properly.
>
> Regards,
>
> CL<
-- 
Martin Pool

Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com> wrote:
> I suggest that a feature be added into rsync. That one could
> separately specify excluded files that should be deleted on the
> receiver and excluded files that shouldn't be deleted on the
> receiver.
That's already possible using filter rules.  An exclude both hides files
on the sending side, and protects files on the receiving side.  Each of
these actions may be specified separately using a filter option, like
these:

    --filter='hide sender.file'
    --filter='protect receiver.file'
    --filter='exclude both-sides.file'

You can abbreviate "hide" as "H", "protect" as
"P" and "exclude" as "-",
as you see fit.  Also, -f is short for --filter.

See also the "merge" (.) filter rule, which slurps a bunch of filter
rules from a file, as well as the "show" (S) and "risk" (R)
rules, which
allow you to specify exceptions for your hide and protect rules.

..wayne..