--exclude ~/data/ To specify a subdir just specify the path to the subdir.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:52 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > Copying directories from one desktop to another using rsync. The rsync man > page shows how to specify directories and individual files, but I've not > seen how to exclude a subdirectory. > > On the source host is a directory ~/data/. On the target host /home is on > /dev/sda2 while data is a separate partition (/dev/sda3). > > What syntax allows me to copy all files but those in the source ~/data/ > subdirectory to ~/ on the target host? > > TIA, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
