Re: rsync deletion target files

[Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>]

On Friday 03 June 2016 18:41:42 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>  $ rsync --dry-run -vrt --delete --modify-window=1 Mail News howto ...
> /mnt/pendrive/rodolfo

May be 
  rsync --dry-run -vrt --delete-excluded --delete --exclude '*' \
 --include 'Mail|News|howto' /mnt/pendrive/rodolfo

Theoretically, the 2 options exclude all files except the ones matching the 
include pattern. I have tested though.

HTH

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