Re: directories that change into symlinks

[David Garamond]

John Van Essen wrote:

Dave,

What you need is the --force option.  It's not obvious from the
all-too-generic name, but that will do the trick.

To the rsync maintainers - this is somewhat of an FAQ.  Perhaps
the error message could also say '(see the --force option)' to
help users discover the solution more easily.

thanks john, that solved the problem. i should've perhaps looked at the manpage twice. the manpage (2.5.5) already states this quite clearly:

--force force deletion of directories even if not empty

however, i personally think --force should be the default as it is more common, or shouldn't it?

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dave

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