Help on rsync delete option

Daniel Ramaley daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU
Fri Nov 1 16:58:00 EST 2002


I had a similar problem once. Try this instead:

rsync -avz --delete  ${SOURCE_HOST}:/mlinkfam/extract/sccs/pa/.
/mlinkfam/extract/sccs/pa 

The only change was "*" to ".".


On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:36:56 -0500 "Chaturvedi.Rajesh" <Rajesh.Chaturvedi at igt.com> wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> Any help on the following issue will be appreciated. 
> 
> How do I delete files or directories in my first level of directory that
> is
> specified as host. Here is an example : 
> 
> rsync -avz --delete  ${SOURCE_HOST}:/mlinkfam/extract/sccs/pa/*
> /mlinkfam/extract/sccs/pa 
> 
> Giving above command I find redundant files or directory not getting
> deleted
> from the first level of target directory /mlinkfam/extract/sccs/pa.
> However,
> files or directories do get deleted from  subdirectories
> /mlinkfam/extract/sccs/pa/qa or /mlinkfam/extract/sccs/pa/field. 
> 
> 
> Thanx, 
> 
> Raj  
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