downloading only specific directories from directory tree

[Kevin Korb]

If you want every openSUSE_Leap_42.2 then just add an include of */ and
let --prune-empty-dirs handle the rest.  If you want it only in those
dirs then you would need something like (I didn't test this):
+ dir:/
+ dir:/**/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/***

On 01/11/2018 11:10 AM, Istvan Gabor via rsync wrote:
> Thank you for your answer, Kevin.
> 
> 2. OK, I understand.
> 
> 1. I checked colon dirs, and indeed they don't have openSUSE_Leap_42.2
> dirs directly. But they have different subdirs which have
> openSUSE_Leap_42.2 dirs. What would be the correct filter set
> to mirror all openSUSE_Leap_42.2 dirs at any level if I don't want
> to include all dirs at the root level? At the roor level tehre are
> many dirs and I can't mirror everything at a time because of space
> limitations. I would like to mirror different groups from the
> root level separately. Either by using root level pattern names or
> by directly specifying the dirs I want to mirror. Each root level dir
> may or may not have an openSUSE_Leap_42.2 dir directly or at a
> deeper level. I want to mirror all openSUSE_Leap_42.2 dirs that
> belong to the specified root level dirs. To make it clear, for example,
> I want to mirror games, games:, graphics, graphics:, hamradio, hamradio:,
> hardware, hardware:, only the openSUSE_Leap_42.2 directory containing
> paths.
> What would be the rules for this?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Istvan
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:27:11 -0500, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote:
>> 1.  You don't appear to be including anything that is within the colon
>> dirs so they are being left out by --prune-empty-dirs.
>>
>> 2.  Includes only override excludes that follow them.  Since your debug
>> excludes are exceptions to the openSUSE_Leap_42.2/*** include they must
>> be before it not after it.
>>
>> On 01/10/2018 05:46 PM, Istvan Gabor via rsync wrote:
>>> Dear Kevin:
>>>
>>> ~ 1 year ago your answer helped me to solve my problem.
>>> This time I would like to do a similar thing but little bit modified.
>>> I read again carefully INCLUDE/EXCLUDE PATTERN RULES section of rsync
>>> manual but still cannot comprehend every part of it.
>>>
>>> I understand I have to add include patterns first and exclude patterns
>>> second. But it is not clear if I have to add all the include patterns
>>> first and all the exclude patterns after them. Or do I have add
>>> include/exclude groups?
>>>
>>> Now I would like to mirror openSUSE_Leap_42.2 dirs from
>>> ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/opensuse/repositories/
>>> but only from specified directories and without files with debuginfo
>>> or debugsource patterns in their names.
>>>
>>> I tried this command:
>>>
>>> rsync -av --include-from=filters.txt --prune-empty-dirs \
>>> rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/opensuse/repositories/ \
>>> opensuse/repositories
>>>
>>> where filters.txt contains:
>>>
>>> + /filesystems
>>> + /filesystems:
>>> + /games
>>> + /games:
>>> + /graphics
>>> + /graphics:
>>> + /hamradio
>>> + /hamradio:
>>> + /hardware
>>> + /hardware:
>>> ...
>>> + openSUSE_Leap_42.2/***
>>> - *debuginfo*.rpm
>>> - *debugsource*.rpm
>>> - *
>>>
>>> but it doesn't work the way I'd like.
>>>
>>> 1. The directories ending with : in their names are not mirrored.
>>> I tried eg /games:  , /games\:  and "/games:", none of these worked.
>>>
>>> 2. The other directories are mirrored but debuginfo and debugsource
>>> files are not excluded.
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate if you explained what the problem is and how to solve it.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Istvan
> 
> 

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