Rsync Re: Trailing /
Gary Aviv
gary.aviv at intec.us
Fri Nov 8 14:54:01 EST 2002
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Lachlan Cranswick wrote:
>
> 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.
>
I think it should be consistent: i.e.
rsync -auv clam::root/usr/local/bin/ /tmp/bin
should work the same as
rsync -auv clam:/usr/local/bin/ /tmp/bin
which is to copy the contents of /usr/local/bin
as the man page says.
> 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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