The directory I'm trying to copy from is: /home/blah/dir The symlink is /home/blah/dir/unwanted_symlinked_dir On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Paul Slootman <paul+rsync at wurtel.net> wrote:> On Fri 03 Mar 2017, Steve Dondley wrote: > > > I'm trying to rsync a directory from a server to my local machine that > has > > a symbolic link to a directory I don't want to download. I have an > > "exclude" option to exclude the symlink which works fine. However, if I > add > > a --copy-links option to the command, it appears to override my "exclude" > > directive and the contents of the symlinked directory gets downloaded > > anyway. > > You don't say explicitly, is the target of the symlink inside or > outside the source directory? > > > Paul >-- Prometheus Labor Communications, Inc. http://prometheuslabor.com 413-572-1300 <(413)%20572-1300> Communicate or Die: American Labor Unions and the Internet http://communicateordie.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/attachments/20170303/efe9a729/attachment.html>
On Fri 03 Mar 2017, Steve Dondley wrote:> The directory I'm trying to copy from is: /home/blah/dir > > The symlink is /home/blah/dir/unwanted_symlinked_dir > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Paul Slootman <paul+rsync at wurtel.net> wrote: > > > You don't say explicitly, is the target of the symlink inside or > > outside the source directory?No, I was asking about the *target* of the symlink. Not the name of the symlink itself. Paul
Ah, sorry, it links to somewhere outside the directory. Thanks. /home/blah/dir/unwanted_symlinked_dir points to /home/blah/other_dir On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Paul Slootman <paul+rsync at wurtel.net> wrote:> On Fri 03 Mar 2017, Steve Dondley wrote: > > > The directory I'm trying to copy from is: /home/blah/dir > > > > The symlink is /home/blah/dir/unwanted_symlinked_dir > > > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Paul Slootman <paul+rsync at wurtel.net> > wrote: > > > > > You don't say explicitly, is the target of the symlink inside or > > > outside the source directory? > > No, I was asking about the *target* of the symlink. Not the name of the > symlink itself. > > > Paul >-- Prometheus Labor Communications, Inc. http://prometheuslabor.com 413-572-1300 <(413)%20572-1300> Communicate or Die: American Labor Unions and the Internet http://communicateordie.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/attachments/20170303/4158ff10/attachment.html>