How to avoid copying empty directories?
btang at pacific.jpl.nasa.gov
btang at pacific.jpl.nasa.gov
Thu Nov 29 07:29:39 EST 2001
Dave Dykstra wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:03:58PM -0800, btang at pacific.jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
> > rsync -avu --include 'tmp1/*/*.c' --include "*/" --exclude "*" tmp1 tmp2
> >
> > The above command copies all the empty directories under tmp1/ . Is there
> > any way to avoid it?
>
> Currently the only way is to explicitly include the parent directories
> you want instead of --include "*/".
>
> - Dave Dykstra
I just figured out a way to avoid the empty directories:
rsync -avu -R tmp1/*/*.c tmp2
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