Re: Passing list of filename suffixes to script.

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

what is the goal

rsync --exclude list and --accept list together for few elements ?

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 7:14 PM <dora-solomon@brusseler.com> wrote:
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> There will be both include and exclude files.
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> From: dora-solomon@brusseler.com
> To: Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>;
>    help-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Passing list of filename suffixes to script.
> Date: 24/07/2021 19:11:58 Europe/Paris
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> From: Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
> To: help-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Passing list of filename suffixes to script.
> Date: 24/07/2021 19:01:28 Europe/Paris
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> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 06:57:34PM +0200, dora-solomon@brusseler.com wrote:
> > Yes, it is for an rsync functionality.  I would like to gather the suffixes 
> > together as I
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> > will do some other checks in addition to rsync and some status logs.
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> > Showing us an example of the rsync command you want to create would be
> > ideal.
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> > In the absence of that, I'll just guess that you want to receive a list
> > of suffixes, such as:
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> > .c
> > .h
> > ,v
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> > And generate a command like this:
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> > rsync --accept="*.c" --accept="*.h" --accept="*,v"
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> Yes, you are quite right.  Or
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> call_rsync -i{.c,.f} -- more here for rsync
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> There is the problem of how to pass ,v and other non-period suffixes.
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> > Here's how I would do it:
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> #!/bin/bash
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> args=()
> for arg; do
> args+=(--accept="*$arg")
> done
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> args+=( other rsync arguments here )
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> rsync "${args[@]}"
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