downloading only specific directories from directory tree

[Istvan Gabor]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 18:15:00 -0500, Kevin Korb wrote:
> An include only overrides an exclude that follows it.  So, you would
> need something like this:
>
> + */
> + openSUSE_13.2/***
> - *
>
> Then add --prune-empty-dirs to your rsync command line.  I left off 
> the
> initial ** because it doesn't really mean anything unless 
> openSUSE_13.2
> isn't always the entire directory name in which case 1 * would do.
>
> Another way to explain it is that by default everything is included.  
> An
> exclude rule makes exceptions.  An include rule makes exceptions to 
> the
> exclude rule.

Thank you a lot.
This worked the way I wanted.

Istvan