resolving difference in interface between rsync and cp/rcp/scp

[Erick Tryzelaar]

No one has any ideas?

-e


Erick Tryzelaar wrote:
> I've run into a situation where we'd like to replace rcp with rsync, 
> but we've run into a difference in interface, which is causing us 
> problems. Here's the problem. If we run this in rsync:
>
> > mkdir tmpdir; cd tmpdir
> > mkdir a; touch a/b
> > rsync -r a b/
> > ls b
> a/
>
> But for all the other programs, we get something different:
>
> > cp -r a c/
> > ls c
> foo
> > cp -r a d/
> > ls d
> foo
> > cp -r a e/
> > ls e
> foo
>
> Is there a flag for rsync that I'm missing that supports this 
> behavior? I was unable to find one.
>
> Thanks,
> -e