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+rs...@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
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