On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Benjamin R Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> And something to watch out for as a new rsync user:
> The trailing slash is important on the source path. From the rsync 'man'
> page (read it!): A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to
> avoid creating an additional directory level at the destination.
To put it short, SRC-DIR refers to a directory, and SRC-DIR/ --
to its contents.
That always seemed like an odd way to put it. Saying "its contents"
implies (or at least leads me to suspect) that SRC-DIR/ would be
synonymous with SRC-DIR/* But, it's not. The former updates the
permissions/attributes on DEST-DIR, but the latter doesn't.
Illustration by example, (now that we're way off topic) :-)
$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo
$ umask 077
$ mkdir -p sa/sb
$ echo foo > sa/sb/sc
$ chmod 770 sa
$ mkdir with-slash without-slash with-star
$ rsync -av sa without-slash
$ rsync -av sa/ with-slash
$ rsync -av sa/* with-star
$ tree -p -L 2
.
|-- [drwxrwx---] sa
| `-- [drwx------] sb
|-- [drwxrwx---] with-slash
| `-- [drwx------] sb
|-- [drwx------] with-star
| `-- [drwx------] sb
`-- [drwx------] without-slash
`-- [drwxrwx---] sa
The important bits:
No 'sa' directory in with-slash or with-star.
Permissions on with-slash are the same as 'sa', but with-star doesn't
match.
Best,
Ben
