On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 06:47:20AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > >> 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. > > > C'mon guys. Idle speculation is no match for the man: > > rsync -avz foo:src/bar /data/tmp > > This would recursively transfer all files from the directory src/bar on > the machine foo into the /data/tmp/bar directory on the local machine. > The files are transferred in "archive" mode, which ensures that sym- > bolic links, devices, attributes, permissions, ownerships, etc. are > preserved in the transfer. Additionally, compression will be used to > reduce the size of data portions of the transfer. > > rsync -avz foo:src/bar/ /data/tmp > > A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid creating > an additional directory level at the destination. You can think of a > trailing / on a source as meaning "copy the contents of this directory" > as opposed to "copy the directory by name", but in both cases the > attributes of the containing directory are transferred to the contain- > ing directory on the destination. In other words, each of the follow- > ing commands copies the files in the same way, including their setting > of the attributes of /dest/foo: > > rsync -av /src/foo /dest > rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo (with out actually testing, just relying on memory and speculation :)) )
the first example you would end up with /dest/foo the second you would end up with /dest/(and the children of foo) > > Looks like JW was correct. > > > cheers > rickw > > > -- > _________________________________ > Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services > > Tis the dream of each programmer before his life is done, > To write three lines of APL and make the damn thing run. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.
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