On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:17:30PM -0500, Perry Hoekstra
wrote:> I am trying to rsync a list of files from one list to another. I went
> back about five months on the mailing list archive and found this
> message:
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:21:54PM
>
> It is possible to build your own complete list of files to copy and give
> them all to rsync, by building a --include list and doing '--exclude
*'
> at the end. Currently you need to also either have --include '*/'
or
> explicitly list all parent directories above the files you want included
> or else the exclude '*' will exclude the whole directories.
There's
> been talk of adding a --files-from option which would remove this last
> restriction, and I even offered to implement it, but I'm still waiting
> for anybody to give performance measurements (using rsync 2.3.2 which
> had an include optimization that did something similar if there were no
> wildcards) to show what the performance impact would be.
>
> - Dave Dykstra
>
>
> Taking that message as a template, I created the following command to
> try to move two files:
>
> rsync -vaR --include 'devel/a.html' --include
'devel/b.html' --include
> '*/' --exclude '*'
> somebox.foo.com::staging/Incremental/07-20-2001_16:00:27/www.foo.com
>
> I get the following displayed:
>
> receiving file list ... done
> drwxrwxrwx 512 2001/07/20 17:04:06 Incremental
> drwxrwxrwx 512 2001/07/20 17:04:06
> Incremental/07-20-2001_16:00:27
> drwxrwxrwx 512 2001/07/20 17:04:06
> Incremental/07-20-2001_16:00:27/www.foo.com
> wrote 190 bytes read 187 bytes 251.33 bytes/sec
> total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
> Return code = 0
>
> but the files are not moved. What have I screwed up in my
> include/exclude patterns? Or have I misinterpreted the email?
You're getting that ls -l type output because you did not specify a
destination directory. Try adding a '.' to the end of your command
line.
- Dave Dykstra
