rsync --delete not working (no wildcards)
Stewart Jeacocke
stewart at jeacocke.org.uk
Mon Jan 28 15:02:14 MST 2013
Hi,
I'm trying to copy some directories with rsync and would like to
delete files from the destination if they no longer exist in the
source.
I'm using the following command:
rsync -v --archive --hard-links --delete --force
--filter=':/.rsync-filter' /opt/ /mnt/backup/opt/
/opt does not contain any files
the destination contains one file
stewart at attobeast:/etc$ ls /mnt/backup/opt/
test-file
after running the rsync command I would expect test-file to have been
deleted but it isn't. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious in the
man page that explains this behaviour but I can't figure it out. Can
anyone enlighten me?
Thanks
Stewart
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