Trailing slash in destination

[Wayne Davison]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 03:20:28PM +1000, Gavin Schokman wrote:
> Is there a reason for rsync ignoring trailing slashes ?

Not that I can see.  I've just checked-in this fix for the problem:

--- main.c	18 Apr 2003 20:03:41 -0000	1.166
+++ main.c	24 Apr 2003 16:24:07 -0000
@@ -285,6 +285,7 @@
 static char *get_local_name(struct file_list *flist,char *name)
 {
 	STRUCT_STAT st;
+	int e;
 	extern int orig_umask;
 
 	if (verbose > 2)
@@ -310,7 +311,7 @@
 		return name;
 	}
 
-	if (flist->count <= 1)
+	if (flist->count <= 1 && ((e = strlen(name)) <= 1 || name[e-1] != '/'))
 		return name;
 
 	if (do_mkdir(name,0777 & ~orig_umask) != 0) {

> ${RSYNC} -avz root@${site}:/data/access_* ${LOG_REPOSITORY}/${site}/

A way to make this work with an existing rsync is to use a directory
reference and exclude/include options, like this:

${RSYNC} -avz --include='/access_*' --exclude='/*' root@${site}:/data/ ${LOG_REPOSITORY}/${site}/

This works even when there's only one access_* file to copy because the
copy also includes the '.' directory.  It also works when there are no
access_* files to copy, unlike your command above.

..wayne..