[PLUG] Copying to new host, excluding a directory tree

[Ben Koenig]

--exclude ~/data/

To specify a subdir just specify the path to the subdir.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:52 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

> Copying directories from one desktop to another using rsync. The rsync man
> page shows how to specify directories and individual files, but I've not
> seen how to exclude a subdirectory.
>
> On the source host is a directory ~/data/. On the target host /home is on
> /dev/sda2 while data is a separate partition (/dev/sda3).
>
> What syntax allows me to copy all files but those in the source ~/data/
> subdirectory to ~/ on the target host?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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