--include option

[Nitin Agarwal]

Hi Leaw
Follow the following steps
1) Make the file "includelist" and "excludelist" in any directory for example
in: /rs/
2) Make entries of all the Directories as follows in "includelist" (the files to
be included)
        clock_speed
        dir1
        dir4
        dir5
3) Make entries of all the Directories as follows in "excludelist" (the files to
be excluded)
        dir2
        dir3
        dir6
I tried * in this case.. but this excludes all.. because include and exclude
works in conjunction.

4) give the command as: "rsync -avz --progress --include-from=/rs/includelist
--exclude-from=/rs/excludelist ....... rest command follows..

please let me know the result after running this way...

Nitin

"Leaw, Chern Jian" wrote:

> Hi Nitin,
>
> How should I include the patterns to be included for the
> --include-from=include_list? I've tried the method suggested from Wayne, but
> could not work.
>
> I've also tried having the --exclude-from=exclude-list in use together with
> the --include-from=include_list, but seems to me that the
> --exclude-from=exclude_list is doing the trick in excluding those dirs/files
> and hence transferring the remaining files over. This seems true when I
> excluded the --exclude-from=exclude-list option, and only have the
> --include-from=include_list specified, it ended up transferring the entire
> files across.
>
> I tried having the following for the file to be specified in the
> --include-from option:
> > + /*/clock_speed
> > + /*/fub_layout
> > - /*
> >
> > AND
> > + circuit_design/clock_speed
> > + circuit_design/fub_layout
> > - /*
> >
> > AND
> > + /stor/circuit_design/clock_speed
> > + /stor/circuit_design/fub_layout
> > - /*
> >
> AND
> > + /clock_speed
> > + /fub_layout
> > - /*
>
> Could you please help me out?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nitin Agarwal [mailto:nitin.agarwal at timesgroup.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 3:49 PM
> To: Leaw, Chern Jian
> Cc: 'Wayne Davison'; 'rsync at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: Re: --include option
>
> Rather u can make two files, name the first one as includelist and second
> one as
> exclude list.
> Make entries of all the files u want to include in rsync in file
> "includelist" and
> entries of files to be excluded in "excludelist".
>
> then give the command:
> rsync -avz ...... --include-from=includelist --exclude-from=excludelist
> ...........rest command continues....
>
> This will work well..
>
> If anybody has faced any problems in doing the synchronisation this way,
> please let
> me know, so that i can be prepared for them..
>
> :-)
>
> Nits
>
> "Leaw, Chern Jian" wrote:
>
> > Hi Wayne,
> >
> > I tried your suggestion, but did not work. It still copied the entire
> > filesystem across to the destination machine.
> > I tried having the following:
> > + /*/clock_speed
> > + /*/fub_layout
> > - /*
> >
> > AND
> > + circuit_design/clock_speed
> > + circuit_design/fub_layout
> > - /*
> >
> > AND
> > + /stor/circuit_design/clock_speed
> > + /stor/circuit_design/fub_layout
> > - /*
> >
> > Could you explain to me the idea of having the +, -, and /* ? Do the
> number
> > of /* indicate the subdirectory levels before arriving at the directory to
> > include?
> >
> > The other alternative you suggested below works well:
> > rsync -avz /stor/circuit_design/{clock_speed,fub_layout}
> >         mickey.willowglen.com:/stor/circuit_design/
> >
> > But I would like to have these include list into a file, as I'd be having
> > many other sub-directories to include, yet exclude.
> >
> > Appreciate it if you could help me out.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wayne Davison [mailto:wayned at users.sourceforge.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:57 AM
> > To: Leaw, Chern Jian
> > Cc: 'rsync at lists.samba.org'
> > Subject: Re: --include option
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Leaw, Chern Jian wrote:
> > >       # rsync -avz --include-from=files_included  /stor/circuit_design/
> > > mickey.willowglen.com:/stor/circuit_design/
> >
> > The problem with your command is that it contains include directives but
> > no exclusions, so nothing limits the default operation of sending the
> > entire subdirectory contents.  An easier way to go for this specific
> > problem is to ignore includes and specify two source dirs, like this:
> >
> >     rsync -avz /stor/circuit_design/{clock_speed,fub_layout}
> >         mickey.willowglen.com:/stor/circuit_design/
> >
> > The above assumes your shell has {} expansion, like bash and zsh.  If it
> > does not, just mention both directories separately (without any trailing
> > slash).  The trailing slash on the destination isn't required, but it
> > doesn't hurt either, so I left it in.
> >
> > To make things work with your include-using command, you'd need to use
> > something like this in your include file:
> >
> > + /clock_speed
> > + /fub_layout
> > - /*
> >
> > This allows the two directories you want, and excludes everything else
> > in the base directory of the transfer.  Since none of the rules apply to
> > files deeper than the base dir, none of them will be excluded.
> >
> > ..wayne..
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