Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:54:03 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two-way Sync of Directories - how? (rsync?) Message-ID: <20040315065403.GA94908@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <87znaid47w.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> References: <4054B6A3.7080704@stevenfettig.com> <20040314201032.GA72170@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <200403152037.13184.satimis@icare.com.hk> <87znaid47w.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de>
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2004, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
...
>Explaining the trailing slash is more difficult. I just remember a
>rule of thumb: if you want to copy directories with rsync, always
>specify a trailing slash. On both the source and the destination. Of
>course, "man rsync" has the full story...
I find this is a bit tricky, and non-intuitive. If I do:
rsync -var ./ system:dest/
Everything in the current directory is copied to the remote directory as it
appears in the current directory.
rsync -var subdir system:dest/
copies subdir to system:dest/subdir
rsunc -var subdir/ system:dest/
copies subdir/* to systems:dest
I often have use the ``-n'' option first to make sure it's going to do what
I want before doing the real transfer.
Incidently if one leaves off the trailing ``.'' for the destination when
copying from a remote system to the current directory, rsync will show what
it will copy if you have it set for verbose output, but won't do the copy.
rsync -vaP remote:/path/\*.sh
This will show which files it would copy
rsync -vaP remote:/path/\*.sh .
This will do the copy.
Bill
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