Re: Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync

[L Anderson <lowella at serv dot net>]

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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