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I have a folder say /media/Movies/English/ numbers of folders, there is say 500 folder

Now I want to copy only 50 folders, not in alphabetical order but in random ...

How to do perform this task using rsync?

I tried the following rsync command

this is want happened rsync -arv --include-from=/media/Movies_NTFS/Movies/English/rsync-test /home/joe/Videos/

rsync-test file contains per line folders present in /media/Movies_NTFS/Movies/English/ folder but nothing is copied, when I ran the command. why?

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You need something like rsync -arv --include-from=rsync-test /media/Movies/English /home/joe/Videos, i.e. you are missing the source argument. – taneli Mar 19 '12 at 19:22
Solved it by using --files-from instead --inlcude-from ... – joe1983 Mar 20 '12 at 3:46
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Good for you! I hope you're aware of the awesome tool called unsort for shuffling the folders (and use the -r option to make it even more random). – taneli Mar 20 '12 at 10:21

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OP solved question using the --files-from switch in rsync instead of --include-from.

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