rsync is not including the dirs that I wanted

xeon123 · 06-04-2014, 04:46 AM

I have this script to rsync my directories.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# set -xv
FILTER="
+  Documents
+  Programs
+  Projects
+  bash-files
+  bookmarks
+  repositories
+  scripts
+  scripts
+  servers
+  workspace
-  *
"

echo "$FILTER" | rsync -avr --dry-run --include-from=- --progress -s $HOME/ "$1"

The problem is that it is rsync'ing files that I did not include in the list. e.g., .cache dir. What is wrong with my script? Am I missing setting any excludes?

jlinkels · 06-04-2014, 06:26 AM

Rsync syncs evertyhing by default. If you want to skip directories you have to exclude them. The include directive is to specify directories which are not excluded. This wording is from the man page.

So it seems that if you want to include only specified directories, you have to exclude everything. In your include statement you would specify what not to exclude.

jlinkels