On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:20:34PM -0500, Michael C. Davis wrote: > I've narrowed it down to a test script for a representative case > which, again, should be working but isn't.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But only slightly less well known is this: "Never exclude '*', when death is on the line!" Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! [Clunk!] Here's a serious answer: Always include ALL the parent dirs when excluding '*'. Also, consider using a less powerful trailing exclusion. In the following example, I've put the include and exclude rules into a single file named "excl": % cat excl + /usr/ - /* + /usr/etc/ - /usr/* % rsync -aHvn ... --exclude-from=excl $SRC $DEST Or: % cat excl + /usr/ + /usr/etc/ + /usr/etc/** - * Note that the last two includes in the latter example are both necessary, as the last one only includes what's inside the directory, but not the directory itself. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
