[lug] excluding directories with rsync

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 03:43:57PM -0600, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
>I need to exclude 5 of the directories and their content from being 
>propagated.

As others have mentioned, rsync can do directories as well.  Read the man
page, it has *EXTENSIVE* options for file selection that only reading the
man page can really do justice to it.  The short form is that you can
specify a directory by giving a trailing /.  So "sys/" matches any
directory named "sys", where "sys" matches a file or directory.  And
"/sys/" matches only the directory named "sys" at the root of the rsync
file-system.

Thanks,
Sean
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