rsync --delete isn't deleting files

[Matt McCutchen]

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 20:11 +0100, Tiago Marques wrote:
> In the past, since
> --delete-before did nothing, I did a dry run and then parsed the
> output to have it "rm" the files that were to be deleted. That so also
> because the --delete needs the --recursive option, which for me is
> very impractical. For this Sabayon mirror, I only pretend to mirror
> the images in the root directory and needing the --recursive is not
> good for me. The packages would require me space that I cannot afford.

Use --recursive and then exclude the stuff you don't want, e.g.,
--exclude='/*/' to exclude all subdirectories.  You may wish to use hide
filters or --delete-excluded.

Matt
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