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I hate to say anything remotely negative to Wayne but... That wording from the man page makes almost no sense without the examples directly after it (and I have read it many times and know what it is saying). When I go all RTFM on this topic I usually tell them to 'man rsync', search for file-will-not-be-found and start reading from that line. Once you understand the broken and correct

...clude patterns actually short-circuit the directory traversal > > stage when rsync finds the files to send./ Karl <kop at meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index 0ec5e55..3f742ab 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -2830,14 +2830,16 @@ itemization( ) Note that, when using the bf(--recursive) (bf(-r)) option (which is implied by -bf(-a)), every subcomponent of every path is visited from the top down, so -include/exclude patterns get applied recursively to ea...