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Subject: Re: excluding a particular filename from rsyncing ... help
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Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> writes:

> Every night I rsync a directory tree from one system to another.  Easy.
> 
> However there is a particular set of files that could exist anywhere in
> that  directory at any depth, and it is unknown how many there are at any
> given time.  I want to make sure that rsync skips over those files
> regardless of where they ae, how deep they are, or how many there are.
> 
> How can I do this on the command line, with rsync ?

See the "Filter Rules" section of the rsync manual.