delete files

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Brian K. White wrote:

> Is there any way to specify a file to be deleted on the remote side 
> explicitly by name?

yes :-)

user at host1:~/deltest> ls -a1
.
..
a
b
c
file
user at host1:~/deltest> ssh host2 ls -a1 deltest
.
..
a
b
c
file
user at host1:~/deltest> rm file
user at host1:~/deltest> rsync -avx --delete --include=/file --exclude='*' . host2:deltest/.
building file list ... done
deleting file
./

sent 96 bytes  received 26 bytes  244.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
user at host1:~/deltest> ssh host2 ls -a1 deltest
.
..
a
b
c
user at host1:~/deltest>


Have fun,
Berny