On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 17:51 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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? > If you want to exclude the ones that start with an uppercase letter, change .[a-z]* to .[a-zA-Z]*. This is caused by the fact that shell globbing is case sensitive, so you need to explicitly list both cases in your expression. > > 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 > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
