On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Steven Levine <stev...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > $ rsync --dry-run -vrt --delete --modify-window=1 file1 file2 file3 ... > >/mnt/pendrive/rodolfo > > >not happen. In rsync `man' page I can't find a solution. > >From the man page's description of --delete: This tells rsync to delete extraneous files from the receiving side (ones > that aren’t on the sending side), but only for the directories that are > being synchronized. You must have asked rsync to send the whole directory > (e.g. "dir" or "dir/") without using a wildcard for the directory’s > contents (e.g. "dir/*") since the wildcard is expanded by the shell and > rsync thus gets a request to transfer individual files, not the files’ > parent directory. You didn't ask rsync to send a directory, so it can't do any deletions. You should instead use filter rules to include what you want to send from a particular directory and hide everything else (or use an exclude combined with --delete-excluded): rsync -aiv --del -@1 -f'+ /file1' -f'+ /file2' -f'+ /file3' -f'H *' ./ /mnt/pendrive/rodolfo You could also combine all the filter rules into a single file and tell rsync to read that instead of specifying them all on the command-line. ..wayne..
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