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
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
I'm not sure if this is directed at me or not. But should I take it to mean
that what I want to accomplish is not possible using normal commands?
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Ken Chase
wrote:
> Considering you cant INCLUDE a directory that is a symlink... which
Considering you cant INCLUDE a directory that is a symlink... which would
be really handy right now for me to resolve a mapping of 103 -> meaningful_name
for backups, instead im resorting to temporary bind mounts of 103 onto
meaningful_name, and when the bind mount isnt there, the --del is
Ah, sorry, it links to somewhere outside the directory. Thanks.
/home/blah/dir/unwanted_symlinked_dir points to /home/blah/other_dir
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Paul Slootman
wrote:
> On Fri 03 Mar 2017, Steve Dondley wrote:
>
> > The directory I'm trying to copy
On Fri 03 Mar 2017, Steve Dondley wrote:
> The directory I'm trying to copy from is: /home/blah/dir
>
> The symlink is /home/blah/dir/unwanted_symlinked_dir
>
> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> > You don't say explicitly, is the target of the
The directory I'm trying to copy from is: /home/blah/dir
The symlink is /home/blah/dir/unwanted_symlinked_dir
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Fri 03 Mar 2017, Steve Dondley wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to rsync a directory from a server to my local
On Fri 03 Mar 2017, Steve Dondley wrote:
> I'm trying to rsync a directory from a server to my local machine that has
> a symbolic link to a directory I don't want to download. I have an
> "exclude" option to exclude the symlink which works fine. However, if I add
> a --copy-links option to the