On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:09:18PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: >There is a --files-from option precisely for that purpose! Try: > >rsync -r --include-from=filt.txt --prune-empty-dirs \ > --files-from=dirs.txt . destdir > >(Note that you need a source argument relative to which the --files-from >paths will be interpreted.) Brilliant! Thanks, both. -- .