--delete option not working

[Wayne Davison]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Stephen Carville wrote:
> rsync --rsh=ssh -vv --recursive --delete /source/dir/* \
> euphrates:/destination/dir/.
>
> but it still does not delete the files!

Perhaps you're talking about the files in the top-level
(/destination/dir) directory?  If so, you didn't tell rsync to delete
files in that directory.  To do this, you'd have to use this command:

rsync --rsh=ssh -vv --recursive --delete /source/dir/ \
euphrates:/destination/dir

Note the lack of a '*' wildcard.  Rsync only deletes files in the
directories that it copies over.  If you tell it to copy multiple
items out of directory (such as /source/dir/*) it copies all those
items, but does not delete files within the containing directory
because that directory was not transferred.

..wayne..