--delete not working (minimal example)

[Nobuko Three]

My God How did I miss that?

Also, it turned out my original problem was that I passed -delete instead of
--delete. I played too much with mencoder recently which uses single - for
both short and long options.



Paul Slootman-5 wrote:
> 
> On Tue 14 Jul 2009, Nobuko Three wrote:
> 
>> --delete option is not working for me. The following is a minimal
>> example.
>> 
>> $ mkdir box1 box2
>> $ touch box1/letter box2/extra
>> $ rsync -a -vv box1/ box2/
> 
> ....
>> 
>> $ rsync -a -vvv box1/ box2/
> 
> ....
>> $ rsync -a -vvvv box1/ box2/
> 
> ....
> 
> How do you expect --delete to work if you're not passing it as a
> parameter?
> 
> 
> Paul
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