rsync - Oct 2005 - Help needed with filtering rules - how to copy named directories only

Hi,

I'm sure what I'm trying to achieve is remarkably easy, but I just
can't
figure it out.  What I want to do is to copy all directories named lib (and
their contents) over to a local drive.  It's currently a pull operation, but
I could set it up as a push.

I've read the man page twice, looked at the FAQ, examples and searched on
google but no joy.

My command looks like the following:

RSYNC=/apps/IRDtools/pkgs/pd/rsync/prod/bin/rsync
$RSYNC -vv --dry-run -a --rsync-path=$RSYNC --exclude-from=copy_control
<hostname>:/apps/IRDtools/pkgs /apps/IRDtools/pkgs

copy_control looks like this:

+ lib/
- *

This exludes everything as the parent directories are not matched so I've
also tried:

+ */
+ lib/
- *

But this copies a load of directories without "lib" somewhere in the
path
which I don't want.  The only way I can think around this is to run on the
source server "find /apps/IRDtools/pkgs -name lib -type d" and pipe
the
output of that into an rsync "--files-from=-" .   I haven't
actually tried
this as the directory structure under /apps/IRDtools/pkgs can get quite big
and although I'm not overly concerned about speed it would be neater to do
this all within rsync.  A sample directory is below:

/apps/IRDtools/pkgs/pd/boost/prod/lib

I want to copy this to the same path on the local machine.  Anyone got any
ideas?

Help much appreciated,

David Carter-Hitchin.
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 01:03:17PM +0100, CARTER-HITCHIN, David, FM
wrote:
> The only way I can think around this is to run on the source server
> "find /apps/IRDtools/pkgs -name lib -type d" and pipe the output
of
> that into an rsync "--files-from=-".
Yes, that's the only solution that avoids creating a lot of empty dirs
at the moment.  The closest you can get with include/exclude rules is
something like this:

+ */
+ lib/*
- *

That would copy the immediate contents of all "lib" dirs, and also the
entire hierarchy of directories.  If you want all the contents from the
subdirs under "lib", you would need to change "lib/*" to
"lib/**".

..wayne..