Does rsync provide a way to remove files at the source that are present
on the destination, without first transferring the files?
I run the same task on several computers that copy the results to a
server. Once the material is copied, it should be deleted at the source
on all the machines.
Say A and B run the same task. A finishes first and copies the result to
server C. When B finishes, the results are already present on C and B
should just delete its results.
I thought I could use
--remove-source-files sender removes synchronized files (non-dir)
--ignore-existing skip updating files that exist on receiver
but in my tests, this only removes files after they have been
synchronized from that machine.
In other words, in the scenario above when B issues
rsync ~/job44 C:~/jobs/ -av --remove-source-files --ignore-existing
and all the job44 files are already present, these files (not the
directory) should be removed on the source, but they are not.
From the man page, it sounds like rsync has this functionality, but in
practice it appears not to have it. Am I missing something or should I
be using other flags?
Cheers,
Dave
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