bash one liner (essentially) to loop through list of files and upload using rsync

for f in `cat file-includes.txt`; do rsync -avz $f user@server.ip:/base-path/$f; done

you could also do the -e 'ssh -i /path/to/preshared/key' to avoid the rsync password prompt on each connect

for f in `cat file-includes.txt`; do rsync -avz -e 'ssh -i /path/to/preshared/key' $f user@server.ip:/base-path/$f; done

I find that this works better for only syncing a short list of files than trying to use the rsync switch --include-from=/path/to/file-includes.txt along with the --exclude-from=/path/to/file-excludes.txt or the --exclude=*

for some reason i couldnt get it to exclude everything BUT what was in my includes-from txt file.


Here is an even more expanded version that creates the white list of files for you containing all visible files in the current directory. You will probably want to modify it so that it only includes a subset of that. Otherwise it is pretty pointless (because it just does what rsync normally does uploads all changed files). You can hand create your white list of files to upload or use svn commit messages even.

ls -1 ./ > ./file-includes.txt; for file in `cat ./file-includes.txt`; do rsync -avz -e 'ssh -i /path/to/preshared/key' $( readlink -f "$( dirname "$file" )" )/$( basename "$file" ) user@server.ip:/base-path/$( readlink -f "$( dirname "$file" )" )/$( basename "$file" ); done; rm ./file-includes.txt