I want:
- scheduled, regular download of updates and patches to some linux
distributions.
- use lftp
- exclude unneeded files and directories
I did:
- determine unneeded directories
- determine unneeded files (at most)
- create E-egrep pattern to exclude directories
- create lftp mirror command to download only from directories not excluded.
-> Works well!
-> Thanks a lot to Alexander!
- create E-egrep pattern to exclude files
-> Simple patterns (e.g. "*.html") do work as expected.
-> I still have problems using more complex patterns.
Sample to describe problem:
I want to exclude all locale specific files not providing "de|en|en_GB"
locale data.
I gathered representative test data to figure out the "right" E-regexp. See
appended "egrep-sample.txt"
Calling >>egrep -E "\-i18n\-[^de][^en][_-]" egrep-sample.txt<< filters
exactly what i want.
Using this pattern within lftp "mirror" does not exclude anything:
lftp -e "mirror \
--continue \
--allow-chown \
--allow-suid \
--no-umask \
--delete \
--use-cache \
--verbose=3 \
--parallel=1 \
--exclude "-i18n-[^de][^en][_-]$" \
/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_7.3/internationalization \
/home/install.suse/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_7.3/internatio
nalization" \
ftp.suse.com
Some variations on the "exclude" expression don't work, either:
--exclude \"\-i18n\-[^de][^en][_-]$\" \
Q1: Any ideas on what i did wrong?
Q2: Is it allowed to use multiple "--exclude" statements whithin one mirror
command?
Q2.1: Or is it mandantory to combine any exclusion into one "--exclude
statement"?
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Niko
total 48892
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 10 16:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Mar 30 11:45 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 10 16:16 .link
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