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| From | Felix Dietrich <felix.dietrich@sperrhaken.name> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: how to copy files |
| Date | 2017-05-20 15:50 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tJcVA-28c-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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| Organization | solani.org |
Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> writes:
> rsync -av /path/to/original/folder /path/to/backup
>
> Notice that there is no need for those / on the end of paths.
Rsync actually treats a trailing newline on the source path specially;
quoted from the man page:
A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid
creating an additional directory level at the destination. You
can think of a trailing / on a source as meaning "copy the con‐
tents of this directory" as opposed to "copy the directory by
name" […]
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Felix Dietrich
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how to copy files Long Wind <longwind2009@gmail.com> - 2017-05-14 23:00 +0200
Re: how to copy files Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-05-14 23:50 +0200
Re: how to copy files Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-05-15 01:40 +0200
Re: how to copy files Long Wind <longwind2009@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 05:20 +0200
Re: how to copy files Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-15 09:20 +0200
Re: how to copy files Felix Dietrich <felix.dietrich@sperrhaken.name> - 2017-05-20 15:50 +0200
Re: how to copy files Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-05-20 16:20 +0200
Re: how to copy files Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-15 14:50 +0200
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