I am using rsync with --files-from option with a file named 'rsync.in' that contains 37K+ directories that are queried from a database. One of the directories looked like this:
/home/usr/directory/./ I know the directory should NOT end with a './' but this was stored in the database that way by another process. When performing the rsync, this one directory caused all files from the root '/' directory on down to be deleted. However, if ran without the --files-from option it works as expected. It is because of the './' on the end and using the 'files-from' option but I don't know why rsync would do that. Obviously not allowing these directories to be stored in the database in the first place is the thing to do, but I just want to understand why rsync would do this so I can ensure I prevent things like this in the future. Here's the command (with the dry-run option for safety). rsync --dry-run --perms --delete --compress --dirs --links --times --keep-dirlinks --files-from=/usr/home/rsync.in /home/src/shared/directory/ / BTW, rsync version 3.1.0 protocol version 31
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