As I learned from the man page of rsync I can exclude a certain directory (trees)
by using the --exclude option like in

rsync .... --exclude=/proc ....

But how do I exclude multiple directory (trees) at once in such a rsync command?
The following does not work:

rsync .... --exclude=/proc||/var||/dummy ....

Same with "&&" instead of "||"

Matthew

On May 7, 3:57 pm, kmlincoln...@hotmail.com (Matthew Lincoln) wrote:
> As I learned from the man page of rsync I can exclude a certain directory (trees)
> by using the --exclude option like in
>
> rsync .... --exclude=/proc ....
>
> But how do I exclude multiple directory (trees) at once in such a rsync command?
> The following does not work:
>
> rsync .... --exclude=/proc||/var||/dummy ....
>
> Same with "&&" instead of "||"
>
> Matthew


*NOT TESTED* but looking at the man pages,

I think you need to make a file, say ~/.rsync/excludes

and the excludes file would read something like;
/proc/
/var/
/dummy/

and then your rsync command would read, in part, rsync --exclude-
from=~/.rsync/excludes

Try that and see what happens.


Owen

In comp.os.linux.misc Matthew Lincoln <kmlincoln100@hotmail.com> wrote:
> As I learned from the man page of rsync I can exclude a certain
> directory (trees) by using the --exclude option like in
> rsync .... --exclude=/proc ....

> But how do I exclude multiple directory (trees) at once in such a
> rsync command?

You get good marks for reading the man page. (You'd be amazed how many
people don't even bother to try...) I think the bit you missed is this:

Note also that the --filter, --include, and --exclude options take one
rule/pattern each. To add multiple ones, you can repeat the options
on the command-line [...]

Personally, I don't find the interaction between the --include/--exclude
directives particularly intuitive. If it's simply a case of "exclude
this and that", then you should be fine. However, as soon as I wanted to
"include this but exclude that", I ended up taking some of the working
examples (from the man page) and tweaking them until I got something
that worked.

Chris

On 7 May, 09:42, Chris Davies <chris-use...@roaima.co.uk> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Matthew Lincoln <kmlincoln...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As I learned from the man page of rsync I can exclude a certain
> > directory (trees) by using the --exclude option like in
> > rsync .... --exclude=/proc ....
> > But how do I exclude multiple directory (trees) at once in such a
> > rsync command?
>
> You get good marks for reading the man page. (You'd be amazed how many
> people don't even bother to try...) I think the bit you missed is this:
>
> Note also that the --filter, --include, and --exclude options takeone
> rule/pattern each. To add multiple ones, you can repeat the options
> on the command-line [...]
>
> Personally, I don't find the interaction between the --include/--exclude
> directives particularly intuitive. If it's simply a case of "exclude
> this and that", then you should be fine. However, as soon as I wanted to
> "include this but exclude that", I ended up taking some of the working
> examples (from the man page) and tweaking them until I got something
> that worked.
>
> Chris

Yeah, to get those to work in a sophisticated fashion, it's best to
write a configuration file which you edit for reference, rather than
the comand line.