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cat .ipodsycfilter P .rockbox P iPod_Control P Calendars P Contacts - - *.exe - - *.mpg - - video/ - - dan_brown/ - - herman_melville Thanks for the help. Wade Pinkston wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to write a rsync filters file so system files will > not be deleted from my ipod but I keep getting this error. > > invalid modifier sequence at 'i' in filter rule: .ipodsycfilter > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at exclude.c(777) > [client=2.6.9] > > the line of interest in my rsync script is as follows > > $RSYNC -av --modify-window=2 --delete --filter=".ipodsycfilter" $MUS/ > $IPOD/ > > here is what I have in the .ipodsycfilter file. > > - *.exe > - video/ > - rP .rockbox > > I've read though the rsync man page but there aren't any good examples > of a filter page nor the protect modifier "P" > > Is anybody familiar enough with rsync to help point me in the right > direction or at least point out my errors? > - -- Wade Pinkston Ipsa scientia potestas est Windows,a 32 bit graphical interface for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system internally coded for a 4 bit processor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition GnuPG Key ID 0x216FDD35 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 216FDD35 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGDH+Ev+6+qSFv3TURAt4kAJwJOJH+q3w2RQw/AZpbLfGT5XxTGQCgnaxX C0ipZIB64WBE2JsYcV0SREg= =l4Ez -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
