Martin, Thanks for the detail explanation. But it still doesn't work for me. Is there something that's been fixed in CVS? I'm using version 2.4.6 from the tar. I also notice you put the include and exclude statements between the two directory specs, rather than up front with the other tags - but it still fails to copy the directories I'm after (without their files). Here's what I see, in a case where the source machine has a 'data' subdirectory at the /web/subdir/ftp/subdir2/*/data/* level, and this directory does not yet exist on the machine the copying is done to (all the other files are current on both machines, directory structure is the same on both): rsync -e ssh -n -avv --include '*/data/' --exclude '*/data/*' somedomain.com:/web/subdir/ftp/subdir2/ /web/subdir/ftp/subdir2/ receiving file list ... done total: matches=0 tag_hits=0 false_alarms=0 data=0 wrote 41 bytes read 1718 bytes 152.96 bytes/sec total size is 3015681 speedup is 1714.43 The same command withouth any include or exclude statements shows: receiving file list ... done H_W/data/Testof322b1.zip H_W/data/df20001018Filters.zip WPG/data/WPGStaars.zip oppen/data/AdventServer.zip oppen/data/PortiaServer.zip total: matches=0 tag_hits=0 false_alarms=0 data=0 wrote 36 bytes read 1893 bytes 154.32 bytes/sec total size is 236404348 speedup is 122552.80 So if I don't want those files and do want to get those directories, I should install the CVS version? Whit On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 02:27:32PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > So you have a directory structure like this: > > /tmp/test > |-- bar > | |-- a > | | |-- a > | | |-- c > | | `-- squick.c > | |-- b > | | `-- squick.c > | `-- squick.c > `-- foo > |-- a > | |-- a > | |-- c > | `-- squick.c > |-- b > | `-- squick.c > `-- squick.c > > 10 directories, 6 files > > And you want to copy everything but the contents of the 'a' > directory, although you want to copy the 'a' directory. > > Remember that include and exclude patterns are applied in order. If > you specifically include 'a' but exclude everything starting with 'a' > you should be OK: > > rsync -avv /tmp/test/ --include '*/a/' --exclude '*/a/*' /tmp/test2/ \/\/ I-I I T Blauvelt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
