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Date:	Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:53:17 -0700
From:	L Anderson <lowella AT serv DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> L Anderson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Initially I used --exclude but decided it was safer to ask for what I
>>want rather than for everything but what I don't want. If a subdirectory
>>that I don't want is added to the mirror, it gets downloaded until I
>>discover it and change the --exclude to exclude it. The mirror's
>>directory structure is more stable now than when I stared so it might
>>not be such a problem, however, .....
> 
> 
> You can do that too in a single pass:
> 
> mirror=mirrors.kernel.org
> dir=sources.redhat.com/cygwin
> dest=/d/cygwin-mirror
> rsync -rlt $mirror::$dir/setup*\ $dir/release/ $dest
> 

In deference to the Bellman: "I like it, I like it, I like it!!!" It's 
revisit my old script time!

> (The rsync man page covers specifying multiple sources in the section
> 'ADVANCED USAGE'.)
> 

Thanks for this pointer and the help!

Regards,

Lowell


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