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Asked: 2026-06-05T21:54:28+00:00

How can I rsync mirror only *.php files? This gives me a bunch of

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How can I rsync mirror only *.php files? This gives me a bunch of empty dirs too and I don’t want those.

rsync -v -aze 'ssh ' \
--numeric-ids \
--delete \
--include '*/' \
--exclude '*' \
--include '*.php' \
user@site.com:/home/www/domain.com \
/Volumes/Servers/
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  1. Editorial Team

    The culprit here is the

    --include '*/'

    When including a wildcard followed by the trailing forward-slash you’re telling rsync to transfer all files ending with a ‘/’ (that is, all directories).
    Thus,

    rsync -v -aze 'ssh ' \
--numeric-ids \
--delete \
--exclude '*' \
--include '*.php' \
user@site.com:/home/www/domain.com \
/Volumes/Servers/

    If you were using that because you intend to recursively find all .php files, you’d have to use the ** wildcard.
    That is,
    --include '**/*.php'

    Another way ( http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1481/rsync-find ) is pre-finding the target files and then using rsync,

    find source -name "*.php" -print0 | rsync -av --files-from=- --from0 ./ ./destination/
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