rsync only the directories, not the files

[Matt McCutchen]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 18:00 +0100, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> can I tell rsync to sync only the directory struture but _not_ the files
> inside the directories ?

Yes.  Pass the following option to exclude (-) everything but (!)
directories (/):

--filter='-! */'

Matt
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