Re: disable interpretation of trailing slash

2012-01-09 Thread John J Foerch
Voelker, Bernhard bernhard.voel...@siemens-enterprise.com writes: John J Foerch wrote: So I may take up your suggestion for my own use, but I did want to put forward the idea that since in my experience, trailing slash interpretation is an often-mentioned stumbling-block for rsync users

Re: disable interpretation of trailing slash

2012-01-08 Thread John J Foerch
Wayne Davison way...@samba.org writes: One solution is to install a bash script (or setup a bash function) in place of the real rsync that strips a single trailing slash from each arg.  That lets you specify dir// if you want to copy a dir's contents.  Here's one I did some mild tesing on

disable interpretation of trailing slash

2012-01-07 Thread John J Foerch
Hello, This is a feature request for a command-line option to disable special interpretation of trailing slashes on source directories. I have been using rsync for a couple of years now (what an awesome program!) and the meaning of the trailing slash on a source is always the one aspect of its

Re: disable interpretation of trailing slash

2012-01-07 Thread John J Foerch
to this. Primarily because there isn't an alternate syntax that performs the exact same function /path/* doesn't work as expected if using --delete (and for good reason). On 01/07/12 21:40, John J Foerch wrote: Hello, This is a feature request for a command-line option to disable special