Your message dated Mon, 18 May 2026 14:54:59 +0000
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and subject line Solved by explaining behavior
has caused the Debian Bug report #605990,
regarding rsync: the use of "/" or not is highly confusing and source of errors
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Package: rsync
Version: 3.0.7-2
Severity: wishlist
" When using "/" at the end of source, rsync will copy the content of the last
folder.
When not using "/" at the end of source, rsync will copy the last folder and
the content of the folder.
When using "/" at the end of destination, rsync will paste the data inside the
last folder.
When not using "/" at the end of destination, rsync will create a folder with
the last destination folder name and paste the data inside that folder. "
However compatible with POSIX, the use of "/" especially for the source, I
would have say that it does the opposite.
this folder + "/" or folder without "/" at the end should do the same results
as does CP or MV (copy and move respectively)
I would guess that it will be fixed in the next releases, since it is source of
many errors and misinterpretation.
An easy solution would be to add a switch to say to copy/move content of
folders or not.
All the best
Kind regards
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii base-files 5.10 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii libacl1 2.2.49-4 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpopt0 1.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
rsync recommends no packages.
Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii openssh-client 1:5.5p1-5+b1 secure shell (SSH) client, for sec
ii openssh-server 1:5.5p1-5+b1 secure shell (SSH) server, for sec
-- no debconf information
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Hello,
it seems the issue is solved several years ago by explaining why the
behavior exists.
There is also no way this would change in the future.
Therefore, closing it.
Regards,
Christian Buhtz
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