OK. Let me just discard every single piece of quoted content from this
thread, because none of it makes ANY sense.
Here is what I see in the Subject: header:
1) Some piece of the verbose output of rsync, for unknown reason.
2) A question about how to do a specific task with rsync.
At some point the body of the thread mentioned an "error message" but
did not show one. It also gave a code snippet with incredibly large
amounts of unnecessary obfuscation. I'm going to ignore that.
As far as I can tell, the question is:
"Given a directory hierarchy, I would like to rsync this hierarchy
to a new location, but ignore all files except the ones ending with
.foo and .bar"
Now let's see how to do that. "man rsync" shows us the following options:
--exclude=PATTERN exclude files matching PATTERN
--exclude-from=FILE read exclude patterns from FILE
--include=PATTERN don't exclude files matching PATTERN
--include-from=FILE read include patterns from FILE
Most likely we'll want one or two of those. Now let's set up a test.
unicorn:~$ mkdir /tmp/src && cd "$_"
unicorn:/tmp/src$ mkdir -p a/b/c a/b2
unicorn:/tmp/src$ touch a/b/c/good.foo a/b/c/bad.bad a/b2/good.bar a/b2/notgood
unicorn:/tmp/src$ find .
.
./a
./a/b2
./a/b2/good.bar
./a/b2/notgood
./a/b
./a/b/c
./a/b/c/good.foo
./a/b/c/bad.bad
And a destination directory:
unicorn:/tmp/src$ mkdir /tmp/dest
Now let's try the most obvious thing I can think of:
unicorn:/tmp/src$ rsync -a --include="*.foo" --include="*.bar" . /tmp/dest/
unicorn:/tmp/src$ find /tmp/dest
/tmp/dest
/tmp/dest/a
/tmp/dest/a/b2
/tmp/dest/a/b2/good.bar
/tmp/dest/a/b2/notgood
/tmp/dest/a/b
/tmp/dest/a/b/c
/tmp/dest/a/b/c/good.foo
/tmp/dest/a/b/c/bad.bad
All right, that didn't work. Now let's try the second most obvious thing:
unicorn:/tmp/src$ rm -rf /tmp/dest
unicorn:/tmp/src$ mkdir /tmp/dest
unicorn:/tmp/src$ rsync -a --exclude="*" --include="*.foo" --include="*.bar" .
/tmp/dest/
unicorn:/tmp/src$ find /tmp/dest
/tmp/dest
Hmm, that didn't work either. Now it's time to read the documentation.
(read, read, read)
OK, here we go:
unicorn:/tmp/src$ rsync -a --include="*/" --include="*.foo" --include="*.bar"
--exclude="*" . /tmp/dest/
unicorn:/tmp/src$ find /tmp/dest
/tmp/dest
/tmp/dest/a
/tmp/dest/a/b2
/tmp/dest/a/b2/good.bar
/tmp/dest/a/b
/tmp/dest/a/b/c
/tmp/dest/a/b/c/good.foo
There. That's the desired result, if my interpretation of the Subject:
header is correct.
In order to understand it, you'll have to read the section titled
"INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES" in the man page. I won't repeat it
all here.
If there are additional questions, please try to ask them clearly.
