>> On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:30:59 +0200,
>> Rodolfo Medina <[email protected]> said:
R> I wish to copy all my home directory into another machine with the
R> --delete option, but:
R> 1) I don't want hidden files, i.e.: `.*' to be copied;
R> 2) there are some symlinks, beginning with `.', that I want to be copied.
Instead of copying everything and deleting what you don't want, why not
make a list of the files you want copied and have rsync use that instead?
Something like this:
list=/tmp/list$$ # or use mktemp
cd $HOME
# Ignore hidden files and "." directory...
find . -print | egrep -v '^(./\.|\.$)' > $list
# ...but keep symlinks starting with a dot.
find . -type l -name '.*' -print >> $list
rsync --files-from=$list [other rsync options, destination, etc]
rm $list
You can add any other filtering you might want after the last "find",
you *know* exactly what files are being synced, and you can store that
list someplace in case there's ever a question of why something did (or
didn't) get copied.
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