Include specific file from exluding folder

Question

I am using rsyn to copy a folder from source to desination

I am able to use exclude successfully

$  rsync -av --exclude='*/deploy/scb_pdm/*' --exclude='*/logs/*'  $COPY_SRC_DIR  $COPY_DEST_DIR

server-4.5.0/conf/wrapper.conf
server-4.5.0/deploy/
server-4.5.0/deploy/scb_pdm/
server-4.5.0/deploy/scb_pdm/director.properties
server-4.5.0/deploy/scb_pdm/ocollate_static.madconfig
server-4.5.0/lib/
server-4.5.0/lib/blue-marble-4.5.0.201511121524.jar

Now I am stuck, How can I exclude only

server-4.5.0/deploy/scb_pdm/ocollate_static.madconfig

Answer 1

I'll start with the generic usage of rsync to exclude the directory.

In order to achieve that you need to use --exclude flag.

rsync -arv --exclude cache/ your_src_dir/ your_dest_dir/

to your case, this will exclude the specific file that is ocollate_static.madconfig.

rsync -arv --exclude='*/deploy/scb_pdm/ocollate_static.madconfig*' --exclude='*/logs/*'  $COPY_SRC_DIR  $COPY_DEST_DIR

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You can think of using another flag that is

--delete-excluded       also delete excluded files from dest dirs

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Another option, excluding multiple files and dirs at the same time.

$ rsync -avz --exclude your_file1.txt --exclude dir3/file4.txt source/ destination/

For detail information about using exclude in rsync.