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user1934428

Reputation: 22225

rsync: Exclude directory in one branch, but not in other

I would like to do a 

rsync master slave

with the following restriction: The directory master/foo/xxx should be excluded from being copied, but the directory master/bar/xxx should be copied.

I can not write

rsync --exclude xxx master slave

because this would also exclude master/bar/xxx. To my surprise, I can also not use

rsync --exclude master/foo/xxx master slave

because it copies BOTH xxx directories (why?).

Of course I can revert to writing two rsync's:

rsync --exclude xxx master slave
rsync master/bar/xxx slave/bar/xxx

but I wonder whether this can't be done any simpler.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (1)

ams
ams

Reputation: 25559

The correct command is this:

rsync --exclude /foo/xxx master slave

Include/exclude rules beginning with / are relative to the root of the transfer (not the root of the filesystem).

Rules starting with other characters are matched to the end of each filename, so foo/xxx would work also, but might match directories you weren't expecting if there is a foo somewhere else in the directory tree.

Your command did not work because "master" is outside the root of the transfer.

Upvotes: 1

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