rsync - Jan 2005 - Creating intermediate directories?

Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but Google hasn't helped me find what I 
want to know.

If I have a local file at:

/some/local/path/file.zip

And I want it to arrive on the remote machine at:

/other/foreign/directory/file.zip

But only /other exists, is there any way to have rsync create the 
intermediate directories?  I know that if I have 
/foreign/directory/file.zip locally I can rsync "foreign" with the -r 
option, but the path structure on the local machine does not match that 
of the remote machine.

-jsd-

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:28:46AM -0800, Jon Drukman
wrote:
> And I want it to arrive on the remote machine at:
> 
> /other/foreign/directory/file.zip
> 
> But only /other exists, is there any way to have rsync create the 
> intermediate directories?
Solution #1 (uses -R):

    cd /scratch-dir
    mkdir foreign
    ln -s /some/local/path foreign/directory
    rsync -avR --no-implied-dirs foreign/directory/file.zip host:/other
    rm -rf foreign

That causes rsync to duplicate the relative path dirs as dirs instead of
making the last one a symlink.

Solution #2 (sends the dirs separately):

    cd /scratch-dir
    mkdir -p foreign/directory
    rsync -av foreign host:/other
    rsync -av /some/local/path/file.zip host:/other/foreign/directory
    rm -rf foreign

Solution #3 (makes the dirs without using rsync):

    ssh host mkdir -p /other/foreign/directory
    rsync -av /some/local/path/file.zip host:/other/foreign/directory

..wayne..