Re: Remote file deletion

2004-11-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:54:00AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: I've looked at the shell command hack but don't see a way to get a remote 'rm /mydir/foo' to execute that way. If you're using ssh or rsh as your rsync connection, you

Remote file deletion

2004-10-28 Thread Dale Amon
I've a particular situation in which I need to sometimes delete one or two files from a remote site. I haven't figured out a way to do it with rsync yet... I've considered playing games with --exclude and --delete but I'm a bit nervous of the chances of mayhem by a simple error. Situation is a

Re: Remote file deletion

2004-10-28 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:15:18PM +0100, Dale Amon wrote: I've looked at the shell command hack but don't see a way to get a remote 'rm /mydir/foo' to execute that way. If you're using ssh or rsh as your rsync connection, you can simply do this: ssh host rm /mydir/foo /mydir/bar