On Sun May 12 20:58:43 2024 Andreas Kähäri wrote > With rsync(1): > > rsync -n -aim --delete-excluded \ > --include-from=list \ > --include='*/' \ > --exclude='*' \ > source/ target >
I don't understand what your command does exactly. And this is surely of everyone interest since, like me, everyone has many files and directories in $HOME which are not worth to save, as ~/.cache for example. If you take a second look to my examples, the one using pax and the other using rsync inside a loop, both are thought to synchronize *only* what I put in the list and, as you see, in the list there are files and directories. I appreciate that you or any other rsync expert here show me how to accomplish that (in case it's possible) with rsync without resorting to a loop as I did. (Not challenging, I'm asking this as favor.) I use a simliar solution to syncronize my $HOME directory to other machines. Related to the idea of synchronizing a selection of files and directories saved in a list, I attempted to lern how rdist(1) works, as Robert B. Carleton advised me, but I couldn't see much, rdistd(1) core dumped.
