include/exclude patterns to copy just certain files?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Wed, 2004-07-07 23:31:05 -0600, Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com>
wrote in message <20040708053105.GA7868 at misery.proulx.com>:
> > The easiest way around this is to switch from include/exclude to using
> > the --files-from option, like this:
> > 
> > find . -name foo | rsync -a --files-from=- . example.com:/tmp/

> As an enhancement I would really like it even more if the --from0
> option could be combined with --files-from to be --files-from0.  It is
> more compact and has a similar style to find's --print0 option.
> Although I will probably use -av0 with this more often than anything
> else so this is not a big deal.

ACK:) That's just the same I thought about it when I saw it first. There
*are* b0rk3d filenames out there (starts off with \n in the name and
finishes with unicode-capable filesystems).

MfG, JBG

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