On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 19:44 +0200, Pournaris Charalampos wrote: > If I have a directory tree in the source machine like the following: > 192.168.1.1 => /raid/system/mainfolder/folder1/subfolder/myfile.txt > > and the target machine directory tree looks like: > 192.168.1.2 => /raid/system/mainfolder/ > > Is there a way to send myfile.txt to the target machine and force rsync > to create the target directories (/folder1/subfolder) ?
Yes, you can use --relative and a ./ in a source argument to recreate the path information after the ./ inside the destination: rsync --relative <options> /raid/system/mainfolder/./folder1/subfolder/myfile.txt 192.168.1.2:/raid/system/mainfolder/ > If mkdir could be used with the '-p' argument by rsync, the above > command would work, I think. Any ideas? That would not be possible because rsync uses the mkdir system call, not the mkdir command-line tool that has the -p option. Code to create ancestors of the destination could be added to rsync, but I'm not convinced that it should be. You can always add your own "mkdir -p" to your script; use --rsync-path='mkdir -p ... && rsync' if you need it to happen on the remote side. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html