Recursive substitution of existing files on receiver side

[jpfmg]

Hello,

I have many files on the source side of the form:
here/cof_1.dat
here/cof_2.dat
here/cof_3.dat
...
...
here/tok_1.dat
here/tok_2.dat
here/tok_3.dat
...

I need to copy those into a directory structure that contains files with the same names. The files on this receiver side need to be updated.
The simplified structure on this side is as follows:
corpus/allwords/cof_1.dat
corpus/allwords/cof_1.dat
...
corpus/words/tok_1.dat
corpus/words/tok_2.dat
...

I tried the option -r for recursiveness with the rsync command, however, it seems that the recursion is only performed on the source side, but not on the receiver's side.

Please help me to find a way to sync the files without typing the whole structure for each sub-direcory between "/corpus/" and e.g. "/words/" (there are a few more in the non-simplified version).

Other options I used to do the synchronisation are -avh, --existing and --update, as in the following example that works, once I specify the whole path on the receiver's side.

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rsync -r -avh --update --existing receiver/here/ destination/corpus/ABC/DEF/words/

Actually, I just found out that this only works if the full path on the source side is specified as well.

Kind regards,
JPFMG