rsync - Jul 2013 - command not working.. help

Hello All,

*rsync -av --files-from=FILE --delete-before src/ dest/*

the above mentioned command not working. I want to delete extra files on
the dest that are not on the source and transferring the selected files
from FILE simultaneously. Please suggest me how to do that ??

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Garvit Sharma
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LNM IIT, Jaipur

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- --delete and --files-from don't work together.

- --files-from is for specifying an exact list of what to copy.
Therefore there can't be anything to delete because there is nothing
it looks at other than the specified list.

Also, never ever use "dest/*"  Your shell will expand that to a list
of everything that matches "dest/*" and rsync will think you are
specifying a bunch of additional sources with the very last one being
the target.  Nothing good will happen.

On 07/07/13 02:33, Garvit Sharma wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> *rsync -av --files-from=FILE --delete-before src/ dest/*
> 
> the above mentioned command not working. I want to delete extra
> files on the dest that are not on the source and transferring the
> selected files from FILE simultaneously. Please suggest me how to
> do that ??
> 
> -- Regards
> 
> Garvit Sharma Computer Science and Engineering UG Third year LNM
> IIT, Jaipur
> 
> /No Body is a Scholar by birth, its only hard work and strong 
> determination that makes him master./ / /
> 
> 
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On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Garvit Sharma <garvits45 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> *rsync -av --files-from=FILE --delete-before src/ dest/*
>
For rsync's --delete to do anything, you must send an entire directory of
files, e.g. if you added -r to that command and specified a directory in
the files-from list.  If you know that the list of files you are specifying
is complete for src/ what you really want to do is use some filtering that
limits what get sent as the contents of the src dir so that rsync can then
delete based upon it.  For instance, if you had some show/hide commands in
a file (these are anchored at the top of the transfer):

S /file1
S /file2
H /*

and then ran:

rsync -aiv --filter='merge filter-file' --delete-before src/ dest/

You would then just need to make sure that everything you need to transfer
in the src dir is listed in the filter file.

..wayne..
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