In article <46D6F986.4040106@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jerry Geis <geisj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Doing " rsync -a /somedirectory/* . " doesnt work
If you have a ton of file in /somedirectory/ then the shell will complain
when it tries to construct a list of arguments a mile long.
> Doing " rsync -a /somedirectory . " does work.
Yes, and you should also note the difference between /somedirectory and
/somedirectory/ which in rsync cause different things to happen.
If /somedir contains files a, and b, then this:
rsync -a /somedir /destdir
will create /destdir/somedir/a and /destdir/somedir/b
whereas:
rsync -a /somedir/ /destdir
will create /destdir/a and /destdir/b
Cheers
Tony
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