Rsync a directory via a linked name.

[Kevin Korb]

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Just go 1 deeper for your source: rsync -l
ftp.cn.debian.org::debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/current/

On 04/16/2015 06:21 AM, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> See the following for detail:
> 
> $ rsync -l
> ftp.cn.debian.org::debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/ 
> [snip] drwxr-sr-x          4,096 2015/01/10 18:17:33 . lrwxrwxrwx
> 18 2015/01/10 18:16:31 current -> 20130613+deb7u2 +b4 drwxr-xr-x
> 4,096 2013/05/01 05:33:52 20130430 drwxr-sr-x          4,096
> 2015/01/05 17:25:32 20130613+deb7u2+b4
> 
> In the above case, the current is a link to 20130613+deb7u2, I want
> to use the name of link directory, i.e., current, to retrieve the
> correspond stuff from remote server to my local host.  At the same
> time, exclude all of the other stuff in the installer-amd64
> directory, for this case, it should be the directory 20130430.
> 
> Considering that the sub-directories in installer-amd64 are often
> be renamed except the link directory name `current', so I want to
> only use the `current' as the directory name in my include/exclude
> rules for the above jobs.
> 
> Any hints on how to write this rsync rules?
> 
> Regards
> 

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