Include/Exclude Pattern for rsync ONLY the latest file of the src dir

2008-10-28 Thread Stefan Mosleitner
Hi,

Is it possible to selcect a particular source directory and filter/select
ONLY the latest file in this directory for rsync?



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Re: Include/Exclude Pattern for rsync ONLY the latest file of the src dir

2008-10-28 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 14:58 +0100, Stefan Mosleitner wrote:
 Is it possible to selcect a particular source directory and filter/select
 ONLY the latest file in this directory for rsync?

Selection of the latest file is not built into rsync, but it can be
scripted easily:

rsync OPTION... SRC/$(ls -t1 SRC | head -n 1) DEST/

Or you can do something like --include=$(ls -t1 SRC | head -n 1)
--exclude='*' if you prefer.

Matt

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