[Bug 12378] why i cannot exclude dir/files if using option "--files-from"

2016-10-14 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12378 --- Comment #6 from Kevin Korb --- If you want to sync files newer than say 3 days ago that is what --files-from is for... cd /source find . -mtime -3 -print | rsync -vai --files-from=- . /target The primary purpose of --files-from is to give rsyn

[Bug 12378] why i cannot exclude dir/files if using option "--files-from"

2016-10-14 Thread samba-bugs
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12378 --- Comment #5 from Alessio --- (In reply to Wayne Davison from comment #4) Well if it's by design I will not go further. But for me it's a missing "feature" because one has to prepare the list beforehand while rsync could do the job "while it's t