On Mon, Mar 15, 2004, Kai Grossjohann wrote: ... >Explaining the trailing slash is more difficult. I just remember a >rule of thumb: if you want to copy directories with rsync, always >specify a trailing slash. On both the source and the destination. Of >course, "man rsync" has the full story...
I find this is a bit tricky, and non-intuitive. If I do: rsync -var ./ system:dest/ Everything in the current directory is copied to the remote directory as it appears in the current directory. rsync -var subdir system:dest/ copies subdir to system:dest/subdir rsunc -var subdir/ system:dest/ copies subdir/* to systems:dest I often have use the ``-n'' option first to make sure it's going to do what I want before doing the real transfer. Incidently if one leaves off the trailing ``.'' for the destination when copying from a remote system to the current directory, rsync will show what it will copy if you have it set for verbose output, but won't do the copy. rsync -vaP remote:/path/\*.sh This will show which files it would copy rsync -vaP remote:/path/\*.sh . This will do the copy. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 "Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you." -- Dr. Paul Williamson, father of a Kent State student _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"