On Thursday, February 26, 2026 5:22:54 PM CET, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Or are you saying that the /back/rhk directory doesn't exist yet, and
you want cp or rsync to create it? Let's assume that one.
cd /
rsync -a rhk /back/
That's what I would use to create the /back/rhk directory during the copy.
The obvious alternative would be:
mkdir /back/rhk
cd /rhk
rsync -a . /back/rhk/
i'm curiuous: why use cd/mkdir at all?
afaik both, cp and rsync work just fine without them:
rsync -a /rhk /back/
copies /rhk into /back/ and creates it if necessary. as well as
cp -a /rhk /back/
does. but both commands work just fine without cd and mkdir...
what do i miss?
greetings...
