On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:21 -0800, Parke Bostrom wrote: > Why is rsync with --link-dest not working as I expect it to in the > following example? > rsync -a --link-dest=a a/ b/ >From the man page: --link-dest=DIR [...] If DIR is a relative path, it is relative to the destination directory. So you need to pass --link-dest=../a . -- Matt