Merci Francis.
Yes, that would probably be a way to do it, but I guess it needs
correctly escaping the special characters which may appear in file
names. (Yes, there are people who use "*" in file names, etc.)
So what I'm doing now is using neither --delete-missing-arg nor
--files-from, but instead making hard links to the wanted files in a
temporary directory on the source, then rsync-ing that temp dir, and
then deleting the hard links in the temp dir.
It's a bit convoluted, but seems to work.
Thanks,
MI
-------- Original Message -------- (francis.montag...@inria.fr,
2019-04-25 13:26)
Hi.
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:35:15 +0200 MI via rsync wrote:
If someone has a good suggestion on how to rsync a list of files and
delete from the destination any file that is not listed in --files-from,
that would be welcome.
Assuming you are talking about files in a same source directory, you
can do:
- generate a file (KEEP_FILE) with the list of files you want
- call: rsync ... --include-from KEEP_FILE \
--delete --delete-excluded \
SOURCE_DIR/ DESTINATION_DIR
KEEP_FILE should have the format:
+ /keep1/***
+ /keep2/***
...
- *
leading / to match only at the first level
/*** to match any level of sub-directory (if keep1 ... are
directories)
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