rsync - Oct 2008 - Include/Exclude Pattern for rsync ONLY the latest file of the src dir

Hi,

Is it possible to selcect a particular source directory and filter/select
ONLY the latest file in this directory for rsync?

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:58 +0100, Stefan Mosleitner
wrote:
> Is it possible to selcect a particular source directory and filter/select
> ONLY the latest file in this directory for rsync?
Selection of the latest file is not built into rsync, but it can be
scripted easily:

rsync OPTION... SRC/"$(ls -t1 SRC | head -n 1)" DEST/

Or you can do something like --include="$(ls -t1 SRC | head -n 1)"
--exclude='*' if you prefer.

Matt