On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Sean Carolan <scarolan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a string, "2012_10_16"; let's call this $YESTERDAY > > How can I rsync a file tree from a remote machine to the local one, > including *only* filenames that contain the matching string? I've > read the man page and googled around but can't seem to get the syntax > right. I either end up syncing all the files, or none of them. > Here's how the code looks now (I will remove the dry run once it is > working): > > rsync -avz --dry-run --include=*$YESTERDAY* remotehost:remotedir/ > localdir/transfer/ rsync -avz --dry-run --include=*$YESTERDAY* --exclude=* remotehost:remotedir/ localdir/transfer/ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que ésta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda) _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos