Is it better to list file patterns in the file or plain file paths?

вт, 1 марта 2016, 7:56 Steven Dennis <nzdreame...@gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I want to create a list of all the files that lftp has d/l to my local
> computer and then use that list to have the next run exclude them from
> being d/l again.  I cannot find anything specific in the man page that
> allows you to use a file with stuff to exclude.
>
> I did come across this post
>
> https://multimerch.com/blog/rsync-lftp-and-exclude-lists/
>
> "I searched for an ftp alternative to rsync and stumbled upon lftp in this
> post. It looked really nice until I found out lftp doesn't support exclude
> lists, which means you can't make it read exclude patterns from a file. The
> good news is, lftp does allow you to specify multiple --exclude switches at
> once, so I modified the command to make use of my exclude-list.txt like
> this:
>
>
> lftp -u username,password -e "mirror --only-newer sed 's/^/--exclude /'
> exclude-list.txt | tr 'n' ' ' --reverse /path/to/local/dir
> /path/to/public_html" server.com
>
> This way, sed prepends every line with an --exclude switch and tr replaces
> newlines so in the end we have our lftp mirror command with all necessary
> excludes in it."
>
> but am not sure if there is a more simple approach as this seems
> complicated to a beginner in linux.
>
> Please let me know if this is the best way to exclude files from d/l from
> a file.
>
> Thanks
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