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

Hi Wayne,

What would be really nice, and I imagine quite easy from a coding
perspective would be to allow the user to apply a regex match on the full
pathname of the files being transferred.

Anyway, thanks for your confirmation - I have worked around this problem.

Cheers,

David Carter-Hitchin.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Davison [mailto:wayned@samba.org] 
Sent: 18 October 2005 21:02
To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, FM
Cc: 'rsync@lists.samba.org'
Subject: Re: Help needed with filtering rules - how to copy named
directories only


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..


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On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:41:16PM +0100, CARTER-HITCHIN, David, FM
wrote:
> What would be really nice, and I imagine quite easy from a coding
> perspective would be to allow the user to apply a regex match on the
> full pathname of the files being transferred.
It's already possible to match on the full pathname (using wildmat
syntax, not regular expressions), but that doesn't help to avoid any
superfluous directory creation.

..wayne..