Noah wrote: > rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29 > > I am running rsync, and I wonder if having the trailing '/' at the end > of the directory is proper configuration? > > --- snip --- > > /usr/local/bin/rsync -avz -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cron/ /var/cron/ >
Presence of absence of the final '/' on the rsync *source* directory
means different things.
If you say:
rsync -a foo/ bar/
directory bar will end up with a copy of the contents of foo. So a
file foo/wibble.txt will end up as bar/wibble.txt. If
on the other hand you say:
rsync -a foo bar/
then you end up with a directory structure 'bar/foo/...', and wibble.txt
ends up as bar/foo/wibble.txt
Other than that, the presence or absence of the trailing slash on the
*target* directory doesn't make a great deal of difference. I usually
try and work things so that the rsync command line always has trailing
slashes on both the source and the destination directories simply for
consistencies' sake.
Cheers,
Matthew
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