How to let rsync only copy over the directories on destination side?

Hi,
Here is how I am using rsync to copy some large file set remotely:

rsync -azv --delete /remote_dir/ .

The problem is there are a lot of sub-directories I do not need, so
each time after the rsync is done, I need to manually trim them away.

Is there a way to tell rsync only to copy over the sub directories
which are under the destination path?

What I mean is, let us say here are the source and destination
directory trees:

src_tree: /remote_dir/1, /remote_dir/2, /remote_dir/3
dst_tree: ./1, ./3/33

I only want to copy over 1/ and 3/33/, not 2/ and any other sub-
directories under 3/.

Thanks.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Here is how I am using rsync to copy some large file set remotely:
> rsync -azv --delete /remote_dir/ .

No it's not. Come back with (an illustration of) the real command.


> The problem is there are a lot of sub-directories I do not need, so
> each time after the rsync is done, I need to manually trim them away.

> Is there a way to tell rsync only to copy over the sub directories
> which are under the destination path?

Read the manual page for the -a flag.

Chris