On Fri 20 Jan 2017, John Lane wrote: > > When you rsync a directory, say `$rsync mydir/ ...` with the trailing > slash, the destination directory is changed to the ownership, > permissions and timestamp of `mydir`.
> $ rsync -a a/ b/ c > $ ls -ld c > drwxr-xr-x 2 john users 4096 Jun 15 1985 c > > The directory 'c' now has the timestamp of the file 'a' > > Furthermore, if the copy is done with root, the ownership and > permissions of the file are also propagated to the directory. Note the > destination directory gains the properties of the first source directory > with a trailing slash. That is as documented. You are requesting that the directory is synced to c, preserving all attributes (due to -a) so rsync does that. Paul -- 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
