Dejan Jocic <jode...@gmail.com> writes:
> rsync -av /path/to/original/folder /path/to/backup
>
> Notice that there is no need for those / on the end of paths.
Rsync actually treats a trailing newline on the source path specially;
quoted from the man page:
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 con‐
tents of this directory" as opposed to "copy the directory by
name" […]
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Felix Dietrich
