Move folders starting with [

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I did not fill out the form since I believe this is a generic question in general

I am trying to move folders that start with the [ character.

Since this appears to be a regex code is there a way using includes to do this..
'''
--include="/[A**"
--include="/[B**"
'''

Very curious if there is a way to do this.

2

The template really is helpful as we have to ask questions..

What OS are you running?

What version of rclone?

is the filtering docs.

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

Trying to move directories starting with
[

I do not understand how in regex to make it understand [ is a directory starting Character

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

rclone v1.61.1

  • os/version: Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 21H2 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 10.0.20348.1547 (x86_64)
  • os/type: windows
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.19.4
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: cmount

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google Drive

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone -vP  --dry-run --include="/[A**" move BOT:/SPECIAL/ Special-A:/00/ --config=drives.conf

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

[BOT]
type = drive
scope = drive
service_account_file = workfilez-sa\1006.json
team_drive = 
server_side_across_configs = true

[Special-A]
type = drive
scope = drive
service_account_file = workfilez-sa\1398.json
team_drive = 
server_side_across_configs = true

A log from the command with the -vv flag

2023/02/20 20:38:46 Failed to load filters: mismatched '[' and ']' in glob "[A**"

I looked at

But cannot figure out the syntax, I am "horrible" with regex

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I'd assume Windows works the same.

For special characters, use a backslash.

felix@gemini:~/test$ rclone ls /home/felix/test
        0 [ATest]/testing
        0 One/onetest
        0 Two/twotest
felix@gemini:~/test$ rclone ls /home/felix/test --include '\[A**'
        0 [ATest]/testing
5

almost the same :wink:

rclone ls d:\files\zork
        0 [A/A.txt
        0 [B/B.txt
        0 C/C.txt

rclone ls d:\files\zork\ --include='\[A**'

rclone ls d:\files\zork\ --include="\[A**"
        0 [A/A.txt
6

Yes the backslash worked, is that the regex escape character? Meaning if a directory starts with a special character like [{ etc rclone ignores the regex part?

Asking because
'''
--include="/A**"
--include="/[Aa**"
'''

works just fine on windows. So I am assuming the backslash means something different with rclone command, if that makes sense.

7

Generally if you have a reserved / special character, you have to backslash so the shell knows to not interpret it.

It's not unique to a regex but generally any command that has reserved/special characters that mean something to that command.

The [ is part of a the pattern matching for rclone's filtering and rclone filtering is like a regex, but not exactly the same.

8

Thank you very much, huge help a huge amount of time!

I will do more reading on the filtering a lot I do get, but I always have issue with regex related commands.

Thanks again

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