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
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