I am trying to create a directory that will house all and only my PDFs compiled from LaTeX. I like keeping each project in a separate folder, all housed in a big folder called `LaTeX`. So I tried running:

```
rsync -avn *.pdf ~/LaTeX/ ~/Output/

```

which should find all the pdfs in `~/LaTeX/` and transfer them to the output folder. This doesn't work. It tells me it's found no matches for "`*.pdf`". If I leave out this filter, the command lists all the files in all the project folders under LaTeX. So it's a problem with the \*.pdf filter. I tried replacing `~/` with the full path to my home directory, but that didn't have an effect.

I'm, using zsh. I tried doing the same thing in bash and even *with* the filter that listed every single file in every subdirectory... What's going on here?

Why isn't rsync understanding my pdf only filter?

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OK. So update: No I'm trying

```
rsync -avn --include="*/" --include="*.pdf" LaTeX/ Output/

```

And this gives me the whole file list. I guess because everything matches the first pattern...