amrit@VeeAte:~/temp/rstest$ ls -lR
.:
total 0
amrit@VeeAte:~/temp/rstest$ rsync -aPv --exclude "*/*" rsync://warez@thecart/slackware/slackware-10.1 /home/amrit/temp/rstest
Welcome to TransAMrit's rsync.

Nothing special to note.  Checksumming is enabled, if you require it.

receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
slackware-10.1/

sent 107 bytes  received 188 bytes  196.67 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
amrit@VeeAte:~/temp/rstest$ ls -lR
.:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  2 amrit users 4096 Jun 21 22:46 slackware-10.1/

./slackware-10.1:
total 0