Copying one directory tree to another but exclude all top-level files

[Paul Slootman]

On Fri 30 Jan 2026, Brian J. Murrell via rsync wrote:
> On Fri, 2026-01-30 at 08:56 -0500, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote:
> > It sounds like you want: --include='/*' --exclude='/*/'
> 
> No.  That doesn't work either.

I think Kevin got it the wrong way round.
You first need to include all directories on the root level,
then exclude all the rest on the root level:

--include='/*/' --exclude='/*'


Paul