exclude hidden files

[Ken Gillett]

OK, thanks for that. For some reason that escapes me now, I was sure that it caused problems.

I'll have a go with just '.*'.



On 20 Aug 2011, at 09:38, Francis.Montagnac at inria.fr wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:47:34 +0200 Ken Gillett wrote:
> 
>> I want to exclude from the sync ALL files that start with a dot, IOW
>> hidden files. But using --exclude '.*' does funny things with
>> directories (or at least I think it does). Is there a recognised
>> correct way to do this?
> 
> Using --exclude '.*' should work. 
> 
> Example:
> 
>    $ tree -a a
>    a
>    `-- b
> 	|-- bar
> 	`-- .foo
> 
>    1 directory, 2 files
> 
>    $ rsync -vv -i -a --exclude '.*' a/ x
>    sending incremental file list
>    [sender] hiding file b/.foo because of pattern .*
>    created directory x
>    delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole-file
>    cd+++++++++ ./
>    cd+++++++++ b/
>> f+++++++++ b/bar
>    total: matches=0  hash_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=0
> 
>    sent 115 bytes  received 38 bytes  306.00 bytes/sec
>    total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> 
> Francis Montagnac
> 




Ken  G i l l e t t

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