At 02:09 PM 3/7/2008, you wrote:

On Friday 07 March 2008 18:40:03 Craig White wrote:

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I've gone over and over the man page and I don't get it and it's obviously a simple task

I want to rsync a directory but only the pdf files...

rsync -ncauv --include=*.pdf $WORKING $WEB_SERVER # sync's everything, I want to exclude stuff

rsync -ncauv --filter='+ *.pdf' --filter='+ *.odt *.ott *.eps' \ $WORKING $WEB_SERVER # sync's everything...does not seem to exclude anything

rsync -ncauv --filter='. /root/scripts/qm_manual_filter' \ $WORKING $WEB_SERVER # cat qm_manual_filter

• *pdf

excludes everything

I am using -n for dry-run I definitely need recursive but -a option handles that

I don't know if it would work, but could you use --exclude-from=/path/to/skiplist.txt to exclude everything then use your filter line to add .pdfs back?

I've not tried adding anything back after excluding. You can certainly use wild cards in your skiplist, such as *.odt *.ott *.eps

Anne

I think Anne has got the solution here: --exclude-from= switch. I've been using rsync for years and never could get the --exclude= switch to work, but --exclude-from= works a charm. That said, I've always had problems with tar -exclude switches too, so take my advice with a grain o' salt.

Cheers!

Craig White wrote:

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:09 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:

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On Friday 07 March 2008 18:40:03 Craig White wrote:

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I've gone over and over the man page and I don't get it and it's obviously a simple task

I want to rsync a directory but only the pdf files...

rsync -ncauv --include=*.pdf $WORKING $WEB_SERVER # sync's everything, I want to exclude stuff

rsync -ncauv --filter='+ *.pdf' --filter='+ *.odt *.ott *.eps' \ $WORKING $WEB_SERVER # sync's everything...does not seem to exclude anything

rsync -ncauv --filter='. /root/scripts/qm_manual_filter' \ $WORKING $WEB_SERVER # cat qm_manual_filter

• *pdf

excludes everything

I am using -n for dry-run I definitely need recursive but -a option handles that

I don't know if it would work, but could you use --exclude-from=/path/to/skiplist.txt to exclude everything then use your filter line to add .pdfs back?

I've not tried adding anything back after excluding. You can certainly use wild cards in your skiplist, such as *.odt *.ott *.eps

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doesn't work...

(from script) rsync -ncauv --exclude-from='/root/scripts/qm_manual_filter' \ --include='**/*.pdf' $WORKING $WEB_SERVER

# ./sync-qm_manual.scr building file list ... done

sent 29 bytes received 20 bytes 98.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00

no files but changing qm_manual_filter to specifics...

# cat qm_manual_filter #+ **/*pdf #- *

• *.ods
• *.odt
• *.ott
• *.eps
• Build-PDF/

did work, so I guess the simplest form is to just do this...

# tail -n 1 script... rsync -ncauv \ --filter='. /root/scripts/qm_manual_filter' \ $WORKING $WEB_SERVER

# cat qm_manual_filter

• **/*pdf

• *.ods
• *.odt
• *.ott
• *.eps
• Build-PDF/

which ultimately does what I want, I think.

here's a stupid hack . . . .

cd /base/dir/of/pdfs find . -type f -name '*.pdf' -print > list for f in `cat list`; do ( test ! -d /dest/`dirname $f`` && mkdir -p /dest/`dirname $f`` ) rsync -av $f /dest/$f done

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Marcelo Roccasalva marcelo-centos@irrigacion.gov.ar wrote:

If you don't mind replicating empty subdirs:

rsync -va --include "*.avi" --include "*/" --exclude "*" $WORKING $WEB_SERVER

The option "--prune-empty-dirs" does the trick!

rsync -av --include '*.pdf' --include='*/' --exclude='*' --prune-empty-dirs "$WORKING" "$WEB_SERVER"

Note: I'm using rsync 3.0.0 from rpmforge repository, I don't know if it's available in rsync 2...

Filipe