--delete option not working

[Stephen Carville]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Wayne Davison wrote:

- 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.

That worked, thanks!

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