selecting some kind of files using the resync command

[Angelo Moreschini]

OK...
thank you very much to all

Angelo

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 October 2014 10:41, Angelo Moreschini <mrangelo.fedora at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am able to backup files with this command:
> >  rsync -av --delete /home/programmers/Labels /media/saved_labels
> >
> > but I am not able to select some kind of files doing the backup
> >
> > I tried in many different way:
> >
> >  rsync -av --delete /home/programmers/Labels/*.java /media/saved_lab
> >  rsync -avr --delete /home/programmers/Labels/*.java /media/saved_lab
> >
> > The message that I get is :
> >
> > sending incremental file list
> > rsync: link_stat
> "/home/programmers/java/PROJECTS_development/Labels/*.java"
> > failed: No such file or directory (2)
> >
> > sent 18 bytes  received 12 bytes  60.00 bytes/sec
> > total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> > rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors)
> > (code 23) at main.c(1165) [sender=3.1.0]
> >
> >
> > ===========
> >
> > I would like to know how to start this command (after it is inside a
> shell
> > script) at the boot.
>
> Both Bill Oliver and Patrick O'Callaghan have given good suggestions,
> but I thought it might be helpful to also explain why this isn't
> working the way you might think it should.
>
> rsync -av --delete /home/programmers/Labels/*.java /media/saved_lab
>
> Will get expanded by the shell to any files that match the glob
> pattern /home/programmers/Labels/*.java that is to say if there is a
> file /home/programmers/Labels/a.java then it will get replaced by
> that, if there is more than one file matching *.java in that directory
> then it will get expanded to all the matches. Once that's done rsync
> gets called with the resulting arguments. The matching only matches
> files in that directory, it's performed by the shell (not rsync) and
> doesn't descend into subdirectories. Once rsync gets it it will either
> have the full path to the (likely non-existent) file "*.java" or a
> list of files in the Labels directory which all end .java. If some of
> those happen to be directories it will recurse into them as the -a
> option tells it to, but likely they'll be regular files and they will
> be the only ones to get copied.
>
> If you want recursive descent and matching within subdirectories (eg.
> you've got .java files under Labels/Code/) then you either need a find
> command to collect them and pass them to rsync or use rsync's "FILTER
> RULES" (see man rsync).
>
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