Re: How do you exclude a directory that is a symlink?

[Wayne Davison]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Ken Chase 
wrote:

> I think both situations could benefit from a --resolve-cmd-line-links
> switch to resolve COMMAND LINE-SUPPLIED symlinks.
>

You can specify symlinks in a --relative path with a trailing slash-dot
(and use /./ infix notation to trim paths). For example:

rsync -aivR /some/path/./symlink/. /dest/

That will create /dest/symlink/ and its contents.

..wayne..
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Re: How do you exclude a directory that is a symlink?

[Wayne Davison]

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Steve Dondley  wrote:

> However, if I add a --copy-links option to the command, it appears to
> override my "exclude" directive and the contents of the symlinked directory
> gets downloaded anyway.
>

The use of --copy-links doesn't do that, so mention what your args and
paths are and we can figure out what you're seeing.

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