Seems to me that the simplest solution is to name the directory explicitly:
rsync -a --include "*/" --include "*.tif" --exclude "*" /film/jonah /tmp/film To accomplish the same thing using includes, you could do this: rsync -a --include /jonah --include "/jonah/**/" --include "*.tif" \ --exclude "*" /film/ /tmp/film If you want to exclude any empty directories that either of these commands creates, you'll have to be more specific in the directory path that is allowed to succeed. I.e., if there's a "foo/bar" path inbetween jonah and sourceimages, you'd need to do something like this: rsync -a --include /jonah --include /jonah/foo --include /jonah/foo/bar \ --include /jonah/foo/bar/sourceimages --include "*.tif" \ --exclude "*" /film/ /tmp/film I haven't tested any of these, but they look right to me. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html