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dastrobu
dastrobu

Reputation: 1736

Copy directory tree without files and hidden directories

This is a follow up to Copy folder structure (without files) from one location to another and Rsync how to include directories but not files?, though not a duplicate.

In essence, I want to do the same, i.e. copy a directory tree from src to dst without copying any files (recursively), except that I also want to skip all hidden folders (recursively).

Adapting this answer by adding --exclude '.*/' did not work as expected:

rsync -av --include '*/' --exclude '.*/' --exclude '*' src/ dst/

as it copies also hidden (dot) directories, .hidden in the following example:

building file list ... done
./
.hidden/
a/
a/.hidden/

I would appreciate an explanation why the attempt does not work as well as a solution to the problem.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 122

Answers (1)

jhnc
jhnc

Reputation: 16819

From the rsync man-page:

The order of the rules is important because the first rule that matches is the one that takes effect.

So, move the include after the first exclude::

rsync -av  --exclude '.*/' --include '*/' --exclude '*' src/ dst/

Upvotes: 1

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