problem with: rsync --delete

[hobi]

--delete options not worked with local sync:
after command

rsync -r --delete /mnt/GREEN/* /mnt/z/g1

all erased source files and directories are present on destination.

have anybody this problem ?

 

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[saurav]

For --delete, the source must be a directory. Try removing the * at the end of /mnt/GREEN/* (which is redundant anyway, if you think about it).

This is from the manpage for rsync:

--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.

 

[hobi]

For --delete, the source must be a directory. Try removing the * at the end of /mnt/GREEN/* (which is redundant anyway, if you think about it).

This is from the manpage for rsync:

Thank your !
After removing the * at end - all OK.