John J Foerch wrote:
So I may take up your suggestion for my own use, but I did want to put
forward the idea that since in my experience, trailing slash
interpretation is an often-mentioned stumbling-block for rsync users,
maybe it would be appropriate for rsync itself to provide a convenient
Voelker, Bernhard bernhard.voel...@siemens-enterprise.com writes:
John J Foerch wrote:
So I may take up your suggestion for my own use, but I did want to put
forward the idea that since in my experience, trailing slash
interpretation is an often-mentioned stumbling-block for rsync users,
Wayne Davison way...@samba.org writes:
One solution is to install a bash script (or setup a bash function) in place
of
the real rsync that strips a single trailing slash from each arg. That lets
you specify dir// if you want to copy a dir's contents. Here's one I did some
mild tesing on
Hello,
This is a feature request for a command-line option to disable special
interpretation of trailing slashes on source directories. I have been
using rsync for a couple of years now (what an awesome program!) and the
meaning of the trailing slash on a source is always the one aspect of
its
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I don't speak for anyone else but I would be opposed to this.
Primarily because there isn't an alternate syntax that performs the
exact same function /path/* doesn't work as expected if using --delete
(and for good reason).
On 01/07/12 21:40, John J
: Saturday, January 07, 2012 8:48 PM
To: rsync@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: disable interpretation of trailing slash
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I don't speak for anyone else but I would be opposed to this.
Primarily because there isn't an alternate syntax that performs
My request is not to change the default behavior, but to add a new
command-line option that would effect new behavior. When one wants the
default behavior, one simply does not use the option.
Kevin Korb k...@sanitarium.net writes:
I don't speak for anyone else but I would be opposed to this.
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:40 PM, John J Foerch jjfoe...@earthlink.netwrote:
This is a feature request for a command-line option to disable
special interpretation of trailing slashes on source directories.
One solution is to install a bash script (or setup a bash function) in
place of the real
