Given the structure… /foo/bar/want-this.txt /foo/bar/want-this-2.txt /bar/foo/ /do-not-want-to-transfer/test.txt
With the desire to ‘include items with foo in their path’... I understand that the closest I can get to a satisfactory filter ruleset is something like: + **foo** + */ - * … and setting --prune-empty-dirs. However, /bar/foo/ is empty, and of course should be copied.. but is pruned. The source and pattern are user-defined, so I can’t hardcode values to include! I can’t rely on other external binaries, so I can’t use $ find, or even shell glob expansion (I call rsync directly, not through a shell). Given these constraints, is the caveated --prune-empty-dirs the best I can do? I mean it's pretty-darned-close, but just checking I'm not missing some option to prevent the premature short-circuiting of recursion, or something like that. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46925606/rsync-greedy-include -- Sent from: http://samba.2283325.n4.nabble.com/Samba-rsync-f2500462.html -- 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