[Cialug] SOT: rsync newbie

[Don Ellis]

The man page is helpful:

       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


--Don Ellis


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> I want to use rsync to copy files from dirone to dirtwo on the same machine.  Many of the files already exist in the folder and I just want to make sure they are all there and up-to-date.
>
> The command I am using looks like this:
> # rsync --progress --partial --size-only -av /mnt/dirone /dirtwo
>
> But what I am getting is a /dirtwo/dirone full of files.  How do I specify just the files and not the whole folder?  Using a trailing slash? /
>
> -Nate
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