How to exclude directories with certain names like “cache” from rsync on Linux during backup?
The “cache” directory may in many different paths, such as file1/cache/ or file2/cache/, and adding all “cache” directories to rsync command is not a doable way.
You can use rsync with --exclude=cache/ like
rsync -avxP --exclude=cache/ /path/to/src/directory/ /path/to/dst/dir/
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