On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Marcelo Roccasalva <marcelo-centos at irrigacion.gov.ar> wrote: > If you don't mind replicating empty subdirs: > > rsync -va --include "*.avi" --include "*/" --exclude "*" $WORKING $WEB_SERVER The option "--prune-empty-dirs" does the trick! rsync -av --include '*.pdf' --include='*/' --exclude='*' --prune-empty-dirs "$WORKING" "$WEB_SERVER" Note: I'm using rsync 3.0.0 from rpmforge repository, I don't know if it's available in rsync 2... Filipe