On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 17:42 +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 13 Nov 2007, Ismaël BALLO wrote: > > I've googled but not found exactly what I want. > > I want to transfer *.log from all directories and subdirectories of /var. > > Directories have to be created remotely only if files match > > That last restriction is a bit of a spoiler,
It can be achieved with --prune-empty-dirs . > but ignoring that, this is > how I'd do it: > > rsync -an --progress --include '*/' --include '*.log' --exclude '*' /var > 10.156.1.1:/home/toto > > But if you're using --files-from anyway, why not use find to get the > list of files and don't let rsync recurse... Why find ? It seems to me that one would do: grep '\.log$' /tmp/source | rsync <blah> --files-from=- Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html