#! /bin/sh # testing --exclude basics . ${tstdir-.}/lib.sh . ${tstdir-.}/conf.sh rm -rf dir1 dir2 dir3 # make the copy-from-here tree mkdir dir1 cd dir1 generate_tree_1 # make the tree we want to compare to mkdir ../dir2 cd ../dir2 generate_tree_1 # manually delete the file that should be missing after rsync rm one/two/three/four.txt cd .. $rsync --exclude 'four.txt' -a dir1/ dir3 compare_trees dir2 dir3