Please help : Strange 'file has vanished' behaviour with rsync on windows.

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Fri Feb 6 23:55:50 GMT 2004


On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:57:36PM -0800, helpneeded at somewhere.com wrote:
> rsync -e ssh -av //mypc1/myshare1/dir1/* //mypc1/myshare1/dir2/.

Rsync does not support giving special meaning to multiple adjacent
slashes -- they are treated as a single slash.  Thus, rsync will try
to copy /mypc1/myshare1/dir/FOO and fail.

..wayne..


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