exclude a pattern but only in the top level
Paul Slootman
paul+rsync at wurtel.net
Thu May 16 00:38:19 MDT 2013
On Wed 15 May 2013, Brian K. White wrote:
> I did in the case when it was only one pattern, but that was just a
> simplified example.
>
> The actual job involves too many include and exclude patterns to use
> --include & --exclude, or even --include-from and --exclude-from,
> because the patterns are generated on the fly by a script from
> values supplied on the script commandline or hardcoded at the top,
I think you're missing the point.
--exclude-from=filename will do the same.
-f ". filename" specifies a rule, and that rule tells rsync to read the
file. --exclude-from=filename tells rsync directly to read the file.
Paul
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