How to Rsync a Single File

How to RSYNC a single file?

You do it the same way as you would a directory, but you specify the full path to the filename as the source. In your example:

rsync -avz   --progress  /var/www/public_html/.htaccess root@<remote-ip>:/var/www/public_html/

As mentioned in the comments: since -a includes recurse, one little typo can make it kick off a full directory tree transfer, so a more fool-proof approach might to just use -vz, or replace it with -lptgoD.

How to rsync only a specific list of files?

Edit: atp's answer below is better. Please use that one!

You might have an easier time, if you're looking for a specific list of files, putting them directly on the command line instead:

# rsync -avP -e ssh `cat deploy/rsync_include.txt` root@0.0.0.0:/var/www/

This is assuming, however, that your list isn't so long that the command line length will be a problem and that the rsync_include.txt file contains just real paths (i.e. no comments, and no regexps).

Unable to sync a single file using rsync on linux

You are missing the -e flag, that will instruct rsync to use ssh with the ssh private key.

Change "-avz" to "-avze" and you are done.

rsync copy over only certain types of files using include option

I think --include is used to include a subset of files that are otherwise excluded by --exclude, rather than including only those files.
In other words: you have to think about include meaning don't exclude.

Try instead:

rsync -zarv  --include "*/" --exclude="*" --include="*.sh" "$from" "$to"

For rsync version 3.0.6 or higher, the order needs to be modified as follows (see comments):

rsync -zarv --include="*/" --include="*.sh" --exclude="*" "$from" "$to"

Adding the -m flag will avoid creating empty directory structures in the destination. Tested in version 3.1.2.

So if we only want *.sh files we have to exclude all files --exclude="*", include all directories --include="*/" and include all *.sh files --include="*.sh".

You can find some good examples in the section Include/Exclude Pattern Rules of the man page

Using rsync to delete a single file

Try this:

rsync -rv --delete --include=foo.txt '--exclude=*' /home/user/ user@remote:/home/user/

(highly recommend running with --dry-run first to test it) Although it seems like it would be easier to use ssh...

ssh user@remote "rm /home/user/foo.txt"

rsync include specific files and exclude directory

You need to put --exclude='build' before --include '*/'. Both of these rules could apply to the "build" directory, and whichever is given first takes precedence, so to get the --exclude rule to override the --include rule, you need to list it first.

From the rsync man page, in the FILTER RULES section (with my emphasis):

As the list of files/directories to transfer is built, rsync checks
each name to be transferred against the list of include/exclude
patterns in turn, and the first matching pattern is acted on: if it is
an exclude pattern, then that file is skipped; if it is an include
pattern then that filename is not skipped; if no matching pattern is
found, then the filename is not skipped.

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