Include exclude not working

[Dave Dykstra]

You should find if you remove the -n option that it actually does copy the
directories.  The dry-run option has a few cases that don't completely
reflect what happens without it, and this is one of them.

- Dave Dykstra


On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:37:00PM +0100, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> playing with --include, --exclude, and --exclude-from=file I found these
> not working:
> 
> xcnlm00s:/etc/adsm/script # rsync -navx --include="*/" --exclude="*" -e
> ssh newsfeed:/
> receiving file list ... done
> wrote 29 bytes  read 28605 bytes  3014.11 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> 
> xcnlm00s:/etc/adsm/script # rsync -navx --exclude="*" --include="*/" -e
> ssh newsfeed:/
> receiving file list ... done
> wrote 29 bytes  read 44 bytes  13.27 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> 
> shouln't the first of these deliver all directories found on host
> newsfeed?
> 
> Using a exclude/include file the same Problem arose:
> newsfeed.lst:
> + */
> - *
> 
> xcnlm00s:/etc/adsm/script # rsync -navx --exclude-from=newsfeed.lst -e ssh
> newsfeed:/
> receiving file list ... done
> wrote 29 bytes  read 28605 bytes  3014.11 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> 
> newsfeed.lst:
> + *
> - */
> 
> xcnlm00s:/etc/adsm/script # rsync -navx --exclude-from=newsfeed.lst -e ssh
> newsfeed:/
> receiving file list ... done
> wrote 29 bytes  read 28605 bytes  3014.11 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> 
> Same. But in "man rsync" is stated:
> If you end an exclude list with --exclude ?*?, note that since the
> algorithm is applied recursively that unless
> you explicitly include parent directories of files you want to include
> then the algorithm will stop at the par?
> ent directories and never see the files below them.  To include all
> directories, use --include ?*/? before  the
> --exclude ?*?.
> 
> Thus I would expect the first to include all directories, but no files.
> But both versions exclude all directories and files!
> 
> --
> Thomas
> 
> 
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