Hi,
I’ve got a quick question.
I had an exclude file for --exclude-from with contents:
tmp/
torrents/
which worked fine. I now decided to include only one dir instead of exclude what I have right now.
Therefore created a file for --include-from with contents:
photos/
However, it doesn’t seem to work. Only if I use photos/**
Why is this?
Thanks,
Christoph
rclone filters work on the whole path name.
So photos/ will match a directory called photos anywhere in the directory path. so it will match /a/photos and /b/photos
However it won’t match /a/photos/a.jpg - you need the ** to match everything including / characters.
I suspect you want /photos/** which will match the directory in the root photos and everything under it.
I expect you are now wondering why in your --exclude-from example tmp worked when what you really wanted was tmp/**? That is a consequence of rclone optimizing the directory access and not recursing into tmp because it was excluded.
I agree it isn’t entirely consistent though!