I wish to sync a bunch of flac files that reside in various subfolders to the root of a folder on a destination.
An example of the directory structure on the source is: source> tree Music/ Music/ ├── R │ ├── Radiohead │ │ └── OK Computer │ │ ├── 01 - Radiohead - Airbag.flac │ │ ├── 02 - Radiohead - Paranoid Android.flac │ └── Red Hot Chilli Peppers │ └── Greatest Hits │ ├── 01 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge.flac │ ├── 02 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away.flac I am using this command which syncs fine but includes the directory paths on the destination: rsync -rltDzvh --delete -e ssh Music/ user@192.168.1.1:/Destination/ --include="*/" --include="*.flac" --exclude="*" So on the destination the structure is: destination> tree /Destination/ /Destination/ ├── R │ ├── Radiohead │ │ └── OK Computer │ │ ├── 01 - Radiohead - Airbag.flac │ │ ├── 02 - Radiohead - Paranoid Android.flac │ └── Red Hot Chilli Peppers │ └── Greatest Hits │ ├── 01 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge.flac │ ├── 02 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away.flac I want to prune all directories so only the files are placed into the root of /Destination/ e.g. destination> tree /Destination/ /Destination/ ├── 01 - Radiohead - Airbag.flac ├── 02 - Radiohead - Paranoid Android.flac ├── 01 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge.flac ├── 02 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away.flac All the files have different names so that's ok and I have reviewed the various options in rsync such as --no-relative but have been unable to get it working as desired. I also came up with: find ./Music/ -name "*.flac" -exec rsync -ltDzvh {} -e ssh user@192.168.1.1:/Destination/ \; But this means using ssh keys and is probably inefficient and if I want to use the --delete it would likely break everything. So how would I achieve this whilst still being able to use --delete or --delete-excluded for times when I add, remove or rename items on my Music library on the source and have those changes sync to the destination? -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html