diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md
index 9d16aea..c71e275 100644
--- a/Readme.md
+++ b/Readme.md
@@ -111,20 +111,29 @@ Local commands `owi local` are used to manage local datasets.
   - **Creating a local dataset and inserting files into local datasets**
     Creating a dataset from a local directory. Note that the dataset is only moved / copied to the configured owilix 
     directory and not pushed to the server (which needs to be done separately)
-    If no InternalID is provided, the dataset is newly created
-    ```bash
-    owilix local insert file:///data/owseu/owilix/it4i/231203 access=public collectionName="mgrani" move=False
-    ```
-    If an intenralID is provided, only files will be inserted
-    ```bash
-    owilix local insert file:///data/owseu/owilix/it4i/231203 access=public collectionName="mgrani" internalID=33ad44a3-8a85-41bf-8118-1647987c4e52 move=False
-    ```
-    
-    Creating datasets on the project level and test the diffs then:
-    ```bash
-    owilix local insert /Users/username/mydata//2023-12-03 access=project collectionName="main" move=False
-    owilix --profile M remote diff all/access=project
-    ```
+    - If no InternalID is provided, the dataset is newly created
+        ```bash
+        owilix local insert file:///data/owseu/owilix/it4i/231203 access=public collectionName="mgrani" move=False
+        ```
+    - If an intenralID is provided, only files will be inserted
+        ```bash
+        owilix local insert file:///data/owseu/owilix/it4i/231203 access=public collectionName="mgrani" internalID=33ad44a3-8a85-41bf-8118-1647987c4e52 move=False
+        ```
+        
+    - Creating datasets on the project level and test the diffs then:
+        ```bash
+        owilix local insert /Users/username/mydata//2023-12-03 access=project collectionName="main" move=False
+        owilix --profile M remote diff all/access=project
+        ``` 
+    - Inserting using sub path selector (e.g. only parts of a directory):
+        ```bash 
+        local insert file:///data/migration/it4i/2023-12-5 'sub_path=year=2023/month=12/day=6/**/*' access=public collectionName="main" move=False owner="OpenWebSearch.eu Consortium" creator="OpenWebSearch.eu Consortium" publisher="OpenWebSearch.eu Consortium"
+        ```
+    - Listing all datasets that have been inserted, but not pushed (i.e. data center is unknown)
+      ```sh 
+      local ls all/dataCenter=unknown
+      ```
+      
 #### Remote Commands
 
 Remote commans operate on the datacenters specified. You can use the `--exclude dc1,dc2`flag to exclude some data centers
diff --git a/owilix/cmd/local.py b/owilix/cmd/local.py
index 99a07ea..6aca4ee 100644
--- a/owilix/cmd/local.py
+++ b/owilix/cmd/local.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ def ls(self, specifier, *args, **kwargs):
 
 @LocalCommands.register
 def insert(self, path, access="public", collectionName="userslice", internalID=None, inferred=True,
-           move=True, **kwargs):
+           move=True, sub_path=None, **kwargs):
     """
     insert files from a filesystem. Command structure (note that the path specifier replaces the usual specifier):
         `local insert <path-specifier> access=[access] collectionName=[collectionName] internalId=[internalId] move=[move]
@@ -98,16 +98,19 @@ def insert(self, path, access="public", collectionName="userslice", internalID=N
         - internalId: str, the internal id of the dataset. If not provided, a new dataset is created
         - move: bool, whether to move the dataset or copy it.
         - inferred:bool (default False), whether to overwrite inferred metadata with provided metadata
+        - sub_path: str, glob specifying the sub path to be imported ignoring the rest.
         - kwargs: dict, metadata for the dataset. supports
 
+
     """
     # 0. prepare and inferre metdata
     overwrite_inferred = inferred if isinstance(inferred, bool) else inferred.lower() in ("true", "t", "1")
     move = move if isinstance(move, bool) else move.lower() in ("true", "t", "1")
     filepath, fs, protocol = get_filesystem(path)
     if not fs.isdir(filepath):  raise ValueError(f"Path {filepath} is not a directory on filesystem {protocol}")
-    self.console.print(f"Looking for files to insert under {filepath}")
-    _file_details = fill_file_details(fs, [f for f in fs.glob(filepath + "/**/*") if not fs.isdir(f)], root=filepath)
+    sub_path = sub_path or "**/*"
+    self.console.print(f"Looking for files to insert under {filepath} with glob {sub_path}")
+    _file_details = fill_file_details(fs, [f for f in fs.glob(os.path.join(filepath,sub_path)) if not fs.isdir(f)], root=filepath)
 
     if internalID is not None: # create internalId and fail in the unlikely event of a double id
         _ds_local = self.owi.local.list(access=access, query={"internalID": internalID, "collectionName": collectionName})