Persistent Flags/Arguments

[dr.mcgillicuddy]

Is there a way to make a flag persistent when using a certain mount? I tried adding exclude = '.DS_Store' to my rclone.conf, but no dice.

For example:

I never want to copy my .DS_Store files. However if I move an entire directory to a remote rclone copy ~/directory remote:directory the local .DS_Store will, of course, copy.

I'd like to be able to run rclone copy without having to use --exclude .DS_Store every time.

And I don't think there's a way to express "exclude all files starting with a . without pulling other things in to the filter. Is there?

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@dr.mcgillicuddy

Is there a way to make a flag persistent when using a certain mount? I tried adding exclude = '.DS_Store' to my rclone.conf, but no dice.

No and there really should be!

I had the idea of making profiles in the config file where you could put defaults for flags.

This could probably be extended to the the backend configs too.

@dr.mcgillicuddy

And I don't think there's a way to express "exclude all files starting with a . without pulling other things in to the filter. Is there?

It can be done... Something like

.*   All files starting with a .
.*/** All files in a directory starting with a dot

You can then combine these like this

.*{,/**}

I think that will work... Use rclone ls to test!