delete files

[Brian K. White]

On 11/14/2011 2:29 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> 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

Ahhh much better than what I did thank you!

And I even already use dynamically generated temp include/exclude files 
all the time too, not even like it's something I'm unfamiliar with.

Thanks again.

-- 
bkw