using rsync to move files - need "--delete-from-source" option

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Fri Feb 8 03:16:55 GMT 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:06 -0800, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi.  I need to move some files over the network.
> 
> This is "In" folder synchornization, so they need to disappear from
> source once they are moved.

Rsync has an option to do this, called --remove-source-files , but it
doesn't delete source directories.

Matt



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