[TynesideLUG] Copying data between two Ubuntu systems

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi All,

I recently came across some info about rsync that might be of interest and
I hope I am explaining it properly.

Imagine you have a directory of files, with at least one with the name
"--delete".

If you do
rsync -r * ~/destination

Then the bash shell will place all the filenames of the current directory
into the command - including the filename --delete which means "delete
extraneous files from dest dirs"

One way to mitigate this is to use the command

rsync -r -- * ~/destination

HTH,


Ian

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