I'm using rsync 2.5.4 on my RedHat 7.3 client laptop and rsync 2.5.5 on my RedHat 8.0 server. On the client, I have a directory "rpm" with 5 subdirectories, out of which I only want to copy the one called SRPMS across. I also have another directory ".mozilla" out of which I want to copy across 2 files. I have constructed the following rsync invocation:
rsync -e ssh -av --delete \ --exclude='/rpm/BUILD' --exclude='/rpm/SOURCES' --exclude='/rpm/SPECS' --exclude='/rpm/RPMS' \ --include='.mozilla/arb/kfgj0v2y.slt/bookmarks.html' \ --include='.mozilla/arb/kfgj0v2y.slt/prefs.js' \ --exclude='.mozilla' \ .mozilla \ rpm \ $SERVER:laptop-backup Now, this works correct for the "rpm" directory, by only copying rpm/SRPMS, and leaving out rpm/BUILD, rpm/SOURCES, /rpm/SPECS and rpm/RPMS. However, it does not copy my bookmarks.html and prefs.js files. If I add one more -v to the rsync command, I see this: excluding directory .mozilla because of pattern .mozilla So it seems the entire .mozilla directory is skipped, despite my 2 --include statements. I have read the man page over and over, and I can't see what's wrong. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? And any ideas on reducing those 4 --excludes to one --exclude and one --include for the rpm directory? Thanks, -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
