Rsync exclude file types

Learn more. Rsync, include only certain files types excluding some directories Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 4 months ago. Active 5 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 24k times. What am I missing? Improve this question. Community Bot 1. CentAu CentAu 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. How does one craft the command if I have recursive directories that I want to send only one type of file. It seems it only does it for the target directory probably because of the last exclude that excludes everything — Charlie Parker.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Could we simplify this? Improve this answer. Gringo Suave I don't understand how did you know what the order of the --includes were?

How does one craft the command if I have recursive directories that I want to send only one type of file. It seems it only does it for the target directory. Exactly what I needed. To summarize: Not matching any pattern means a file will be copied! The algorithm quits once any pattern matches Also, something ending with a slash is matching directories like find -type d would.

Let's pull apart this answer from above. Giacomo Jim Hunziker Jim Hunziker Thank you so much for explaining what's going on. Now there's much better chance that I won't forget the command. Of course this is in the man page somehwere, and if I'd read the whole thing carefully, I'd've seen that. Still, thanks. The other key concept is that "when using the --recursive -r option which is implied by -a , every subdir component of every path is visited left to right, with each directory having a chance for exclusion before its content.

Or does matching a file require matching on a directory pattern AND matching on a file pattern? Show 2 more comments. One more addition: if you need to sync files by its extensions in one dir only without of recursion you should use a construction like this: rsync -auzv --include '. EDIT: Thanks to gbyte. Serge Roussak Serge Roussak 1, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges.

CharlieParker, because the rsync uses the include and the exclude options in the order which they were specified in. In addition to this, it stops at the first matched one. See the man for more explanations. First flag -- include '. Is that correct? Thanks for this! Must be the first argument.

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