On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:12:40PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > Note that the trailing slash *is* needed on the ssh connection, see > without: > > local# rsync --exclude='*' --include='.*' remote:/tmp/test > Password: > (nothing) That's because you excluded the directory "test", which is the first component of the transfer. ..wayne..