#81 Exclude directory not working

[Simon Hill]

I want to sync a directory but exclude a couple of sub-directories. I've tried the following but none seem to work
For example, I want to sync everything in /webroot except for the directory /webroot/admin

s3cmd sync --dry-run --verbose --encoding UTF-8 --exclude "/webroot/admin/" /webroot/*
s3cmd sync --dry-run --verbose --encoding UTF-8 --exclude "/webroot/admin/*" /webroot/*
s3cmd sync --dry-run --verbose --encoding UTF-8 --exclude "/webroot/admin" /webroot

[Christian S.]

After a lot of testing i found a workaround.
If you write:
s3cmd sync --exclude "*webroot/admin/*" /webroot
it works.

Its not really a solution, but works for me.

[Freddy Boisseau]

After doing a lot of testing, I believe I have discovered the issue. The problem is that the --exclude/--include(-from), when converting the values in the these list to regular expression it does not handle the directory name correctly. What I believe it should be doing is replacing a "./" in the file names in list with a "^".

This would make "./webroot/admin/" "^webroot\/admin\/.*$", when converted to regular expressions. Until this change is made, using the regular expression and manually converting them, will work. This is what I am doing.

[Fletcher Tomalty]

+1

This bug took me a while to figure out. Please use the same format as a .gitignore so that "venv" will exclude the whole "venv" directory.

In the mean time, you can change your directory exclusions to the "venv/*" format, which will work correctly.

[Martin Schlatter]

Same here. Excluding directories does not work.