Keeping individual dirlinks
Matt McCutchen
matt at mattmccutchen.net
Sun Nov 4 20:57:11 GMT 2007
It would be nice if rsync offered a way to specify individual dirlinks
to keep without keeping all dirlinks. (Unison can do this.) For
example, consider the following command:
rsync -a --relative src/./ dest/
If rsync refrained from trimming a trailing /. off of source arguments
(at least as an option), one could keep a dirlink by passing it as an
additional source argument with a /. and excluding the non-/. version so
that rsync does not see the symlink to convert it to a directory:
rsync -a --relative --exclude='/mydirlink' src/./ src/./mydirlink/.
AFAICT, this wouldn't worsen daemon security because any destination
symlink a crafty client could follow using the /. syntax he could
already follow by passing a destination path that goes through it.
Matt
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