rsync - May 2013 - exclude a pattern but only in the top level

Consider the following directory structure

/foo/aaa/*/*
/foo/bbb/*/*
/foo/ccc/*/*

I want to sync all of /foo,
but exclude /foo/aaa
but not exclude any other occurances of "aaa" or "foo/aaa"
(be they
files or dirs) that might occur within the other dirs /foo/bbb/* 
/foo/ccc/* etc

I don't want to exclude /foo/bbb/aaa or /foo/ccc/111/aaa or 
/foo/ccc/111/foo/aaa etc...

Destination is running rsync daemon and has a module named root that 
points to "/" such that normally, for the full /foo with no exclude, 
it's very simple, my rsync command would just be:

rsync -avz /foo ${DEST}::root

That works fine without the exclude.

So, to that I want to add a filter file. (Well, I assume that's what I want)

rsync -avz -f ". filter" /foo ${DEST}::root

If I construct a filter file like this:
- aaa
+ *

or like this
- aaa/
+ *

or like this
- foo/aaa/
+ *

rsync hides the top level /foo/aaa but it also hides any other 
occurrences of the exclude pattern that occur anywhere within the job 
instead of just the top level one.

How can I get it to exclude just the top-level directory "/foo/aaa" ?

-- 
bkw

On 15.05.2013 04:13, Brian K. White wrote:
> How can I get it to exclude just the top-level directory
"/foo/aaa" ?
With a '/' at the beginning you pin the pattern to the beginning.

You don't use "/" at the end of directory names, so i'm not
sure if the
correct one is:
/aaa
or
/foo/aaa

With a '/' at the end (... source/ target/ ...) it's the first one,
in
your case it might be the other one.


-- 

Matthias

On 5/15/2013 4:13 AM, Brian K. White wrote:
> Consider the following directory structure
>
> /foo/aaa/*/*
> /foo/bbb/*/*
> /foo/ccc/*/*
>
> I want to sync all of /foo,
> but exclude /foo/aaa
> but not exclude any other occurances of "aaa" or
"foo/aaa" (be they
> files or dirs) that might occur within the other dirs /foo/bbb/*
> /foo/ccc/* etc
>
> I don't want to exclude /foo/bbb/aaa or /foo/ccc/111/aaa or
> /foo/ccc/111/foo/aaa etc...
>
> Destination is running rsync daemon and has a module named root that
> points to "/" such that normally, for the full /foo with no
exclude,
> it's very simple, my rsync command would just be:
>
> rsync -avz /foo ${DEST}::root
>
> That works fine without the exclude.
>
> So, to that I want to add a filter file. (Well, I assume that's what I
> want)
>
> rsync -avz -f ". filter" /foo ${DEST}::root
>
> If I construct a filter file like this:
> - aaa
> + *
>
> or like this
> - aaa/
> + *
>
> or like this
> - foo/aaa/
> + *
>
> rsync hides the top level /foo/aaa but it also hides any other
> occurrences of the exclude pattern that occur anywhere within the job
> instead of just the top level one.
>
> How can I get it to exclude just the top-level directory
"/foo/aaa" ?
>

Never mind, I think I got it. I saw the special meaning of a leading 
slash in an include/exclude pattern in the man page. So:

rsync -aznvvv --exclude '/pix/trinity/' /pix ${DEST}::root
...
[sender] hiding directory pix/trinity because of pattern /pix/trinity/
...
[sender] make_file(pix/0/trinity,*,2)
[sender] make_file(pix/0/pix/trinity,*,2)
[sender] make_file(pix/0/pix/trinity/foo,*,2)
[sender] make_file(pix/0/trinity/trinity,*,2)

So it excluded /pix/trinity/ as desired, yet included other paths that 
had "/pix/trinity/" in them such as /pix/0/pix/trinity/foo"

I only need the single pattern at the moment so --exclude is simpler 
than a filter file, but just for the record I verified a filter file 
like this worked the same too:
- /pix/trinity/

Also please disregard the "+ *" in my previous examples. I know they
are
superfluous. They were in there only because I was starting with a copy 
of a different script that originally had "- *" at the bottom to
include
some patterns and exclude everything else. At the moment I need the 
opposite of that so when I reversed all the + & -, I ended up with a "+
*" at the bottom.

-- 
bkw

On Wed 15 May 2013, Brian K. White wrote:
> Consider the following directory structure
> 
> /foo/aaa/*/*
> /foo/bbb/*/*
> /foo/ccc/*/*
> 
> I want to sync all of /foo,
> but exclude /foo/aaa
> rsync -avz /foo ${DEST}::root
Firstly, I always recommend that with directory transfers you add a
trailing slash to the source, so your command becomes:

rsync -avz /foo/ ${DEST}::root/foo/

Then a filter would be:

- /aaa/
+ /*

Note the leading slash, as your aaa directory is now in the root of the
source. The second line is not really needed in this scenario IMHO

To be honest I'm wondering about your usage of -f ". filter",
I always do --exclude-from=filter


Paul