rsync command exclude option

Michal Soltys soltys at ziu.info
Wed Nov 26 13:35:55 GMT 2008


Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> I want only .sql files to be rsynced to the destination host.
> 
> when i do rsync -avz oldUnicelFiles hostB:/home/kaushal 
> --include-from=include.txt
> it rsync all the files under oldUnicelFiles, I mean even .gz and .txt 
> files too.
> 
> ~/oldUnicelFiles $ ls
> 01-07-2008_LOG.txt.gz  01-08-2008_LOG.txt  02-09-2008_LOG.txt.sql
> ~/oldUnicelFiles $
> 
> cat include.txt
> #####################
> /oldUnicelFiles/*.sql
> #####################
> 
> am i missing something
> 

Include is rsync's default action, if no explicit pattern that would 
override it is specified.



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