rsync - Apr 2015 - Finding specific files/directories from a remote rsync server.

Hi all,

Suppose I have remote rsync server, named as: rsync.example.net.  And I 
want to finding some specific files/directories from it.

To do this, I must let my local rsync client to do a traversing among all 
of its modules and the corresponding sub-directories.  Say, if I want to 
find all of the `foo/file' on this rsync server, i.e., a file named file 
which is located under the foo directory.  How can I do this thing within 
bash/shell script with the invoking on rsync client?

Regards
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Say, if I want to find all of the `foo/file' on this rsync server
>
You'd use filter (include/exclude) rules.  See in the man page about its
notes on how rsync requires you to include all directories in order to
traverse the tree and you'd end up with something like this:

rsync -aiv --include=foo/file --include='*/' --exclude='*'
rsync.example.net::module/ /dest/

You might also try using --prune-empty-dirs.

..wayne..
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On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:44:56 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> You'd use filter (include/exclude) rules.  See in the man page about
its
> notes on how rsync requires you to include all directories in order to
> traverse the tree and you'd end up with something like this:
> 
> rsync -aiv --include=foo/file --include='*/' --exclude='*'
> rsync.example.net::module/ /dest/
> 
> You might also try using --prune-empty-dirs.
> 
> ..wayne..
Thanks a lot for your hints.

Regards
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.: Hongyi Zhao [ hongyi.zhao AT gmail.com ] Free as in Freedom :.

On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 09:44:56 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> rsync -aiv --include=foo/file --include='*/' --exclude='*'
> rsync.example.net::module/ /dest/
Another issue is as follows:  if I have known that the `foo/file' is 
located under some sub-directories  under a folder named `bar' in in the 
module's directory, in this case, I want to save the time for only 
searching into all of the sub-directories of rsync.example.net::module/
bar/.  Then what's revision should be done on the --include='*/' to
adapt
for this case?

Regards
> 
> You might also try using --prune-empty-dirs.




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