Aws-cli: Multiple --exclude arguments for "aws s3 sync" command

[aik099]

I'm trying to exclude multiple files/folders by giving multiple --exclude arguments to an aws s3 sync command, but it seems, that only first one is taken into account.

If it's not supported, then how can I put multiple exclude expressions into --exclude argument?

[aik099]

Here is a command I'm trying to run:

aws s3 sync /path/to/local/folder s3://bucket-name/folder-on-bucket --delete --exclude=*.svn/* --exclude=cache --exclude=.restricted --exclude=tmp --exclude=*.php

At then end .svn folders on any deep level are not present, but others directories/files are still there.

Maybe there is some problem in dot (.) recognition in directory names and this breaks whole exclude expression.

[jamesls]

If you're shell is bash, you'll have to quote the wildcard values, as the shell will expand these values before it's passed to the CLI. So:

aws s3 sync /path/to/local/folder s3://bucket-name/folder-on-bucket --delete --exclude="*.svn/*" --exclude=cache --exclude=".restricted" --exclude=tmp --exclude="*.php"

Can you try that and see if that works?

[aik099]

Actually it did work.

I've tried to quote non-wildcard values, e.g. "tmp" and as a result tmp folder was uploaded. But why I need to quote a folder if it contains "." in it? Maybe there some kind of regex support here, that isn't explained in docs?

[jamesls]

Sorry, you don't need to quote a directory if it contains a '.' character, only special characters that are consumed by the shell, such as the wildcard '_' character, need to be quoted. To exclude a directory, you can say --exclude "tmp/_".