[CentOS] rsync

Anne Wilson
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:09:40 -0000

On Friday 07 March 2008 18:40:03 Craig White wrote:
> I've gone over and over the man page and I don't get it and
it's
> obviously a simple task
>
> I want to rsync a directory but only the pdf files...
>
> rsync -ncauv --include=*.pdf $WORKING $WEB_SERVER
> # sync's everything, I want to exclude stuff
>
> rsync -ncauv --filter='+ *.pdf' --filter='+ *.odt *.ott
*.eps' \
> $WORKING $WEB_SERVER
> # sync's everything...does not seem to exclude anything
>
> rsync -ncauv --filter='. /root/scripts/qm_manual_filter' \
> $WORKING $WEB_SERVER
> # cat qm_manual_filter
> - *
> + *pdf
>
> excludes everything
>
> I am using -n for dry-run
> I definitely need recursive but -a option handles that
>
I don't know if it would work, but could you
use --exclude-from=/path/to/skiplist.txt to exclude everything then use your
filter line to add .pdfs back?

I've not tried adding anything back after excluding.  You can certainly use
wild cards in your skiplist, such as *.odt *.ott *.eps

Anne
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