rsync synchronizing files only without creating folders on destination
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Is it possible with rsync to not create directories on destination?
Imagine I have that source :
a/
a/x.txt
b/
b/y.txt
And that I have this destination :
a/
a/z.txt
The wanted result of rsync source destination :
a/
a/x.txt
a/z.txt
Of course my real situation involves thousand files/folders structure and I don't want solutions involving explicit list of synced folders, which I can do. I'm looking for a clean way just to prevent any folder creation on destination. By exclude or filtering... That could even be something outside rsync, like a hack with permissions if rsync can't do this...
For information, this is really easy to get this kind of situations, in my case I have:
- A server with 2 disks, let's say 
A&B. And a local driveC. - I usually use 
rsyncto sync (and merge) remoteA&Binto localC. - Then sometimes I just want to sync back some 
Cfiles intoAandB. (Just new Files... not non-existing folders on destination) 
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