Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:47:31 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Noah <admin2@enabled.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rsync and trailing '/' Message-ID: <45EC1163.3090405@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <45EC0C0D.7040302@enabled.com> References: <45EC0C0D.7040302@enabled.com>
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Noah wrote:
> rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29
>=20
> I am running rsync, and I wonder if having the trailing '/' at the end
> of the directory is proper configuration?
>=20
> --- snip ---
>=20
> /usr/local/bin/rsync -avz -e ssh globs@globs.com:/var/cron/ /var/cron/
>=20
Presence of absence of the final '/' on the rsync *source* directory
means different things.
If you say:
rsync -a foo/ bar/
directory bar will end up with a copy of the contents of foo. So a=20
file foo/wibble.txt will end up as bar/wibble.txt. If
on the other hand you say:
rsync -a foo bar/
then you end up with a directory structure 'bar/foo/...', and wibble.txt
ends up as bar/foo/wibble.txt
Other than that, the presence or absence of the trailing slash on the
*target* directory doesn't make a great deal of difference. I usually
try and work things so that the rsync command line always has trailing
slashes on both the source and the destination directories simply for
consistencies' sake.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3
7 Priory Courtyard
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