Brian K. White (br...@aljex.com) wrote on 11 November 2011 15:59: >Is there any way to specify a file to be deleted on the remote side >explicitly by name? > >I would have thought that deleting the file locally, the rsyncing the >non-existing file with --del would have resulted in the remote file, >which does exist being deleted.
No, rsync only deletes when it scans the directory. You can get what you want with v3.1 and --delete-missing-args. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html