dg/ux --delete anomaly

[Tim Boyer]

> 
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:54:34AM -0500, Tim Boyer wrote:
> > I'm running rsync 2.5.7 on Data General dg/ux 4.20, and just 
> noticed that
> > the --delete command is not deleting.
> > 
> > # />ls -la /test
> > total 5
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other           512 Dec 13 10:46 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  37 root     root           1536 Dec 13 10:46 ..
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 a
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 b
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 c
> > 
> > # />ls -la /test1
> > total 5
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other           512 Dec 13 10:47 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  37 root     root           1536 Dec 13 10:46 ..
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 d
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 e
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:47 f
> > 
> > # />rsync -a --delete /test/* /test1
> 
> Unless you specify a directory it cannot delete.
> Try that with
> # />rsync -a --delete /test/ /test1
> instead
> 

Sonofa...  that works, of course.  Thanks much.