print only first level directory name when copying files

[Perry Hutchison]

Fourhundred Thecat via rsync <400thecat at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> I am copying /mnt/foo to /mnt/bar/
>
>    rsync --info=name1,del2 -rl /mnt/foo /mnt/bar/
>
> /mnt/foo contains deep directory structure, ie:
>
>    /mnt/foo/aaa/
>    /mnt/foo/aaa/somestuff/
>    /mnt/foo/aaa/somestuff/file1
>
>    /mnt/foo/bbb/
>    /mnt/foo/bbb/someotherstuff/
>    /mnt/foo/bbb/someotherstuff/file2
>
> I am not interested in details which individual files were copied, just
> the main directory. Is it somehow possible for rsync to only report the
> first level directory?
>
> ie, to have output like this when copying:
>
>    /mnt/foo/aaa/
>    /mnt/foo/bbb/

Do you need this reported in real time (e.g. to monitor progress),
or just as a logfile?  If the latter, filtering the output with grep
might work -- something like this (untested):

  rsync --info=name1,del2 -rl /mnt/foo /mnt/bar/ | egrep '^/.*/.*/.*/$'