On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Victor Villa <[email protected]> wrote:

> Greets all,
>
> I've got a txt file with the path and filename of 20k files that I need to
> copy.  When it copies, i need the folder structure to keep.  When i do this
> in rsync, i curiously got the files listed and about 15k more files that
> i'm not sure why are included in the transfer, but they AREN'T on the
> list.
>

Maybe you got bit by the same thing that got me today.  According to this
site[1], rsync will include all files by default. You could try with
--exclude='*' and see if that makes a difference. Worked for me, but I was
using --include.

Corey

1. http://masstransmit.com/garage_blog/rsync-quirks/

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