Rsync Re: Trailing /

[Lachlan Cranswick]

What should be the official behaviour here?

I must admit some of my scripts probably have both
trailing and non-trailing "/".  But just played around
until it was mirroring into the correct directory.

Lachlan.

At 18:20 07/11/02 -0500, you wrote:
>It appears that the trailing slash in the source is being ignored:
>
>rsync -auv clam::root/usr/local/bin/ /tmp/bin  
>
>ends up with files under /tmp/bin/bin
>where 
>
>rsync -auv clam:/usr/local/bin/ /tmp/bin
>
>works as expected.
>
>rsync -auv 'clam::root/usr/local/bin/*' /tmp/bin
>
>also works as expected.
>
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