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copied!<p>Perhaps you could do this using a list of include patterns instead, and use <code>--delete-excluded</code> (which does as the name suggests)? Something like:</p> <pre><code>rsync -r --include-from=<patternlistfile> --exclude=* --delete-excluded / dest/ </code></pre> <p>If filenames are likely to contain wildcard characters (<code>*</code>, <code>?</code> and <code>[</code>) then you may need to modify the Python to escape them:</p> <pre><code>re.sub("([[*?])", r"\\\1", "abc[def*ghi?klm") </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Pattern-based matching works slightly differently to <code>--files-from</code> in that <code>rsync</code> won't recurse into directories that match the exclude pattern, for reasons of efficiency. So if your files are in <code>/some/dir</code> and <code>/some/other/dir</code> then your pattern file needs to look like:</p> <pre><code>/some/ /some/dir/ /some/dir/file1 /some/dir/file2 /some/other/ /some/other/dir/ /some/other/dir/file3 ... </code></pre> <p>Alternatively, if all files are in the same directory then you could rewrite the command slightly:</p> <pre><code>rsync -r --include-from=<patternlistfile> --exclude=* --delete-excluded /some/dir/ dest/ </code></pre> <p>and then your patterns become:</p> <pre><code>/file1 /file2 </code></pre> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Thinking about it, you could include all directories with one pattern:</p> <pre><code>/**/ </code></pre> <p>but then you'd end up with the entire directory tree in <code>dest/</code> which probably isn't what you want. But combining it with <code>-m</code> (which prunes empty directories) should solve that - so the command ends up something like:</p> <pre><code>rsync -m -r --delete-excluded --include-from=<patternfile> --exclude=* / dest/ </code></pre> <p>and the pattern file:</p> <pre><code>/**/ /some/dir/file1 /some/other/dir/file3 </code></pre>

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