symlink in -R src_dirlist and real dirs on target

Kevin Korb kmk at sanitarium.net
Mon Dec 2 13:18:27 MST 2013


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It would not.  Rsync only operates on the sources you tell it to.  If
the source is no longer specified then --delete would not operate on
it in the target.  This is why it is not recommended to use
/path/to/source/* as the source as that will be expanded to multiple
sources.

On 12/02/13 15:15, - wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> thanks. I'll try this again. I did before but got the impression
> that on subsequent runs, rsync would not recursivly run through
> dir1 and dir2. I hope I just was very tired ;-)
> 
> another topic: Do you have an idea if rsync could delete "dir3" if
> dest/ consists of dir1 dir2 dir3 and I use
> 
> rsync -RaH --stats --delete --progress --itemize-changes dir1/
> dir2/ dest/
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 

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