Uses rsync to sync folders on a machine.

syncFolders.bash

syncFolders() {
    printf "%s" "Target Folder: "
    read localFolder
    printf "%s" "Destination Folder: "
    read remoteFolder
    printf "%s" "Excluded Folders (separated by space): "
    read excludedFolders
    array=($(echo "$excludedFolders" | tr ' ' '\n'))

    # if [ -z "${excludedFolders[@]}" ]; then
    #     excludedFolders=(".git" "node_modules")
    # fi
    
    echo "Running sync to move from $localFolder to $remoteFolder"
    
    exclude_flags=()
    for i in "${array[@]}"
    do
        echo "Excluding $i"
        exclude_flags+=("--exclude=$i" "--exclude=*/$i")
    done

    echo "${exclude_flags[@]}"

    rsync -av "${exclude_flags[@]}" "$localFolder" "$remoteFolder"
}