Rsync: How can I exclude all except one particular file in a folder?

Question

I have route-eth1 file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scipts/. I need to exclude all the files except route-eth1 file during rsync ?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '18 at 13:59

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You can check this answer, it seems pretty close to your problem : StackOverflow - rsync a specific file.

You can simply rsync directly the file by specifying the full path :

rsync avz /etc/sysconfig/network-scipts/route-eth1 root@<remote-ip>:/etc/sysconfig/network-scipts

answered Nov 12 '18 at 13:59

Sofien

Cant I do like --exclude network* init* ifup* ifdown* ifcfg* for excluding other files ?? – Heisenberg Nov 12 '18 at 14:20

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