Re: pruning old files

[Michael Salmon]

On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 09:46:36 AM +0900 Shinichi Maruyama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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| jw> In the past i found that using find was quite good for this.
| jw> Use touch to create a file with a mod_time just before you
| jw> started the last sync. Then from inside $src run
| jw> find . -newer $touchfile -print|cpio -pdm $dest
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| For pruning, how about to add the feature to rsync.
| Is it difficult ?
|
| --exclude-older=SECONDs
| exclude files older than SECONDs before
| --ignore-older=SECONDs
| ignore any operations with the files older than
| SECONDs before
| differ from --exclude-olders, these files are not
| affected from --include files or --delete-excluded
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Wouldn't a better solution be to add a file list option, similar to cpio, to rsync? That would also satisfy those who want complex include and exclude rules. Probably 2 options are required, one for newline terminated names and the other for null terminated names.

/Michael
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