Re: --delete-missing-args doesn't delete

2019-04-23 Thread MI via rsync
Thank you Kevin. It seems that I misunderstood the purpose of this --delete-missing-args option. If someone has a good suggestion on how to rsync a list of files and delete from the destination any file that is not listed in --files-from, that would be welcome. Thanks, MI Origi

Re: --delete-missing-args doesn't delete

2019-04-23 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
--files-from will delete files from the destination that are listed but not existing in the source. It isn't delete what isn't listed. On 4/23/19 5:29 AM, MI via rsync wrote: > I'm generating a list of files to sync, and would like all the files not > in my list to be deleted from the destination

--delete-missing-args doesn't delete

2019-04-23 Thread MI via rsync
I'm generating a list of files to sync, and would like all the files not in my list to be deleted from the destination. I thought that --delete-missing-args would do just that, but it doesn't delete anything. Would someone have an idea of what I'm doing wrong? This is what I tried : ~$ mkdir