On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> >Note for rsync newbs;
> >    rsync -av /home.orig /home/
> >is different from
> >    rsync -av /home.orig/ /home/
> >The first will do what you want, the
> >second will create /home/home.orig/
>
> The other way around; ending with a trailing slash on both directories, as
> you said the first time, will always make the second directory mirror the
> first.

My understanding is that the presence of a trailing slash on the target 
directory makes no difference.

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