On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:47:34 +0200 Ken Gillett wrote:
I want to exclude from the sync ALL files that start with a dot, IOW
hidden files. But using --exclude '.*' does funny things with
directories (or at least I think it does). Is there a recognised
correct way to do this?
Using --exclude
OK, thanks for that. For some reason that escapes me now, I was sure that it
caused problems.
I'll have a go with just '.*'.
On 20 Aug 2011, at 09:38, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:47:34 +0200 Ken Gillett wrote:
I want to exclude from the sync ALL files that
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Ken Gillett wrote:
OK, thanks for that. For some reason that escapes me now, I was sure
that [--exclude '.*'] caused problems.
I'll have a go with just '.*'.
My guess is that you were once trying to sync a directory containing
hidden (dot) directories. So, e.g.:
$
I want to exclude from the sync ALL files that start with a dot, IOW hidden
files. But using --exclude '.*' does funny things with directories (or at least
I think it does). Is there a recognised correct way to do this?
I thought --exclude '.???*' would avoid the directory issue by only
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Ken Gillett email...@ukgb.net wrote:
I want to exclude from the sync ALL files that start with a dot, IOW hidden
files. But using --exclude '.*' does funny things with directories (or at
least I think it does). Is there a recognised correct way to do this?
I
Hi,
On Thursday 02 December 2004 22:24, Hong Zhu wrote:
Hi all,
I'm rsync'ing all directories tree plus *.html and
.htaccess files but excluding everything else.
Although *.html files are indeed the only files get
transferred, hidden files and directories like
.abc also get transferred...
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Subject: Re: how to exclude hidden files/directories
Hi,
On Thursday 02 December 2004 22:24, Hong Zhu wrote:
Hi all,
I'm rsync'ing all directories tree plus *.html and
.htaccess files but excluding everything else.
Although *.html files are indeed the only files get
