On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 19:09 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008 18:40:03 Craig White wrote: > > 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 ---- 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. Thanks Craig