CentOS - Jul 2006 - rsync reply

Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>>
What part of the '--exclude=[PATTERN]' part of the man page is giving
you trouble? Is something not matching correctly, overmatching too much
or...?
>>>>>>>>>>>
I don't understand how to write it. I have rsync 2.5.7

These don't work:
rsync -av --delete '--exclude=[cache]'  -e ssh
rsync -av --delete '--exclude=cache'  -e ssh
rsync -av --delete --exclude='cache' -e ssh
In fact nothing with the = sign works.

Could you please give an example of the code in you want to remove these
folders listed as:
root
	cache
	download

	shop
		cache
		download

Also, even with the --delete option in there the front page extension
folders like _private, etc. will not be deleted and these folders are not on
the site on the sending server.  As I understand it --delete is suppose to
delete the files on the receiving server if the same files are not on the
sending server but it does not for the front page extension folders.

Thank you!

Sincerely,
Melinda Odom
Design Hosting, Inc.
www.designhosting.biz
479-471-0891
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Melinda Odom wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
> What part of the '--exclude=[PATTERN]' part of the man page is
giving
> you trouble? Is something not matching correctly, overmatching too
> much or...?
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
> 
> I don't understand how to write it. I have rsync 2.5.7
> 
> These don't work:
> rsync -av --delete '--exclude=[cache]'  -e ssh
> rsync -av --delete '--exclude=cache'  -e ssh
> rsync -av --delete --exclude='cache' -e ssh
> In fact nothing with the = sign works.
> 
> Could you please give an example of the code in you want to remove
> these folders listed as:
> root
> 	cache
> 	download
> 
> 	shop
> 		cache
> 		download
Put these in a file - excludes.list

/cache
/download
/shop/cache
/shop/download

Your rsync command will look like this:

rysnc -av --delete --exclude-from=excludes.list -e ssh ... The
-excludes=PATTERN would work with --excludes=file.*, etc... There's also the
--dry-run option that will output what rsync will be transferring. You can
test things that way without actually rsyncing files.

HTH

Mark