Most of you will be familiar with rsync - a nice little *nix tool that syncs files between a given source and destination. Its original purpose was to allow an easy way of creating backups from a multitude of *nix clients to a single server.

Depending on your workspace you might want to always skip a series of source files before sending them over. You can do this easily with the --exclude-from=/path/to/exclude/folder parameter.

In my dotfiles I made an alias for rsync that incorporates this param, so every sync I execute will only push the files I want it to.

alias rsync='rsync --exclude-from=$HOME/.bin/rsync-exclude-list.txt'

Example of an rsync-exclude-list.txt:

.svn/ 
files/ 
cache/ 
install/ 
.DS_Store 
Thumbs.db

So every time I use rsync, it would effectively ignore all matches in the file above. You can still use any parameters freely:

rsync -vurn www/ davelens.be:www/