rsync : how to exclude specific files or folders ?

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>> Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>>> Oh ! After reading your mail, and re-re-re-reading the man page, I ventured into this:
>>>
>>> $rsync <options> --exclude '*.VirtualBox' --exclude '*.googleearth' <source> <destination>
>>>
>>> and it worked !
>> Yes, and if you want to switch from a chain of exclude parameters to a
>> file (e.g. if the command line starts getting long), you can just do:
>>
>> rsync <options> --exclude-from=my_exclude_file <source> <destination>
>>
>> And my_exclude_file is then just:
>>
>> *.VirtualBox
>> *.googleearth
> 
> 
> The asterisks are needed. ".foo" will match a file any file called .foo

I had meant to write they are *not* needed to match all such named
files. Sorry for the omission.




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