pe...@easthope.ca writes:
> In a realistic case, there are more than two exclusion patterns.
> Comments or suggestions about the two possibilities? Astonishingly
> better ideas? =8~o
Put the exlucde patterns in a file and use --exclude-from=file? Works
for me, so far with tar and bup, rsync h
From: Greg Wooledge
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 11:08:54 -0500
> "${exclusions[@]//#/--exclude=}"
In a shell script; correct?
I'm making a shell function declared in .bashrc. Numerous syntactical
variations were unsuccessful. Maybe a simple escape syntax is needed.
Stretched a test out
On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 06:19:20 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: Greg Wooledge
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 18:44:04 -0500
> > Store the exclusions in an ARRAY, not in a string. Then create a
> > second array which contains the spelled-out --exclude=... options.
>
> Unfamiliar to me &
From: Greg Wooledge
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 18:44:04 -0500
> Store the exclusions in an ARRAY, not in a string. Then create a
> second array which contains the spelled-out --exclude=... options.
Unfamiliar to me & interesting. What benefits outweigh the additional
complexity?
Thanks,
On Fri 06 Dec 2024 at 18:30:27 (-0500), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hypothetical shell usages (1) & (2).
>
> (1)
> Restore() { \
> source=somewhere/Backup/ ;
> destination=elsewhere/workingDirectory ;
> rsync \
> --exclude '*.mp3' \
> --exclude '*.mp4' \
> -anuv $source $destination ; }
On 12/6/24 18:46, e...@gmx.us wrote:
> overengineered
Greg's solution is better.
On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 18:46:06 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
> You could do something
> overengineered like defining an array "excludepatterns" for patterns, and
> then doing something like
>
> rsync \
> $(for pattern in ${excludepatterns[@]} ; do
> echo -- "--exclude '$pattern'"
> done)
>
> Mo
On 12/6/24 17:11, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
These
> rsync \
> --exclude '*.mp3' \
>--exclude '*.mp4' \
> rsync \
> --exclude=$exclusions
are not the same. In the first one you have "--exclude" for each pattern,
and in the second you have it once. I suspect the first one is correct,
On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 15:11:51 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> (2)
> exclusions='*.mp3'
> exclusions+='*.mp4'
> Restore() { \
> source=somewhere/Backup/ ;
> echo "source is $source." ;
> destination=elsewhere/workingDirectory ;
> echo "destination is $destination." ;
> rsync \
> -an
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