On Fri 03 Mar 2017, Steve Dondley wrote: > I'm trying to rsync a directory from a server to my local machine that has > a symbolic link to a directory I don't want to download. I have an > "exclude" option to exclude the symlink which works fine. However, if I add > a --copy-links option to the command, it appears to override my "exclude" > directive and the contents of the symlinked directory gets downloaded > anyway.
You don't say explicitly, is the target of the symlink inside or outside the source directory? Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html