Yup, it is working.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Carlos Carvalho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carlos@fisica.ufpr.br">carlos@fisica.ufpr.br</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Matt McCutchen (<a href="mailto:matt@mattmccutchen.net">matt@mattmccutchen.net</a>) wrote on 26 July 2009 17:45:<br>
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<div class="h5"> >On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 21:37 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote:<br> >> I have a situation where I want to delete some of my excluded patterns<br> >> but still want to preserve some other. For example consider below<br>
>> source and destination directory hierarchy.<br> >><br> >> Source Dest<br> >> ---------- ---------<br> >> /foo/bar/ /foo/bar/<br> >> | -> baz | -> baz<br>
>> | -> xyz | -> xyz<br> >> | -> abc | -> abc<br> >> | -> old-baz<br> >><br> >> I am below comand using --delete-excluded and as a result rsync<br>
>> deletes exluded directories "baz" and "abc" and also deletes<br> >> "old-baz". I want to preserve the "old-baz" and "baz" directories on<br> >> destination side and want "abc" to gets deleted. Could you tell me how<br>
>> to tell rsync to do this?<br> >><br> >> rsync -avz /foo/bar/ --delete-excluded --exclude=/baz --exclude=/abc<br> >> desthost:/foo/bar/<br> ><br> >Recall that an exclude filter is shorthand for a hide plus a protect if<br>
>--delete-excluded is off, or just a hide if it is on.. Since you want<br> >some of your filters to protect destination files from deletion but not<br> >others, your best bet would be to drop the --delete-excluded and specify<br>
>individual hide, protect, and plain exclude (hide+protect) filters. For<br> >more detail, carefully read the "FILTER RULES" section of the man page.<br> ><br> >Something like the following should do what you described:<br>
><br> >rsync -avz /foo/bar/ --exclude=/baz --filter='H /abc' \<br> > --filter='P /old-baz' desthost:/foo/bar/<br><br></div></div>Would just --filter='P /abc' (without the --filter='H...') also work?<br>
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