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Varun K M
Varun K M

Reputation: 207

how to stop the infinite loop and exclude the directories?

Could you please someone suggest , how to stop the infinite loop and exclude the directory from the below script ( Here i have to exclude only the logs). Once if the files are copied from source to destination, then the loop should be stopped.

    #!/bin/bash

source=/home/ec2-user/source
dest=/home/ec2-user/destination

while true; do
        rsync -arv --exclude '/home/ec2-user/source/IntegrationServer/instances/default/logs' $source/ $dest
            sleep 1
    done

Upvotes: 1

Views: 222

Answers (1)

James Risner
James Risner

Reputation: 6076

This works as expected. You can add the while loop if you wish for it to continue forever.

#!/bin/bash
source=/home/ec2-user/source
dest=/home/ec2-user/destination
rsync -arv --exclude IntegrationServer/instances/default/logs $source/ $dest

The exclude needs to be relative to the source. So I removed the part common to the source.

Upvotes: 1

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