[Cialug] rsync --recursive *.foo

[Dave Weis]

I thought there was also --include besides --exclude

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Jon Clemons wrote:

> Try putting something like below. It has been my experience and understanding 
> rsync
> will only do recursive when you tell it to.
>
> rsync -avzr *.foo -e ssh user at host:/location   ./
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Champion" <dave at visionary.com>
> To: "'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 12:26 PM
> Subject: [Cialug] rsync --recursive *.foo
>
>
>> I want to do an rsync like so:
>> 
>> rsync -avze ssh --recursive *.foo user at host:/location
>> 
>> (IIRC, recursive is the default behavior, just putting it there to 
>> explicitly show that I really want it to be recursive).
>> 
>> The problem with this is because of the *.foo wildcard, it only uploads 
>> *.foo in the current directory, and not any sub directories because they're 
>> not named *.foo.
>> 
>> I've had the same problem with tar. Is there something simple I'm 
>> overlooking here? It seems stupid to me that the wildcard applies to both 
>> the files, and the directory names.
>> 
>> My work-around is to change change my rsync script to have several 
>> "--exclude *.bar" parameters, which is a pain.
>> 
>> -dc
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