On Tuesday 21 March 2006 07:28, James Wilkinson wrote:
I should have thought --exclude .[a-z]* or --exclude .??* would have got
rid of most hidden files and directories. A quick check on my home
directory suggests both would do the job [1]
For the test I dropped the '-r', but forgot to exclude ~/Desktop, though it
wasn't important at this point because it was being re-directed to another
directory. Here is what I gave:
rsync -e "/usr/bin/ssh" --exclude=.[a-z]* -auvz /home/anne/
anne@borg:/home/anne/Test
yet it started to act recursively. Most of the hidden files were excluded by
the filter, but it let .DOCPSERVER_box.domain.lan, .ICEauthority
and .Xauthority. I don't think that the first one is a problem, since it is
linked to the box, but the other ones probably are. What do you think?
I'd also suspect that for the test, you need to --exclude
~/Desktop :
things could get odd if you repeatedly try to syncronise all of your
home directory to somewhere underneath it.
I haven't spotted the relevant bit in the man page, so do you list the two
excludes simply space-separated?
Anne