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* Luke Kanies <luke@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-09-30 13:36 -0500]:
> I use '.' all the time, though, and would often be quite lost without it
> (although it could be argued that most of those problems stem from
> stupid or unclear tools). For instance:
>
> rsync -a /somedir/. /otherdir/.
rsync is quite deserving of some hate for its ... interesting syntax
choices. I often have to check the man page (which, annoyingly, lists the
usage examples *before* the option descriotions) to recall which way it
goes. The key item is whether you put a slash at the end of your source
directory.
Let's say you have /a, /a/b, /a/c, and /x. This:
rsync /a /x
will create directories /x/a, /x/a/b, and /x/a/c. On the other hand,
this:
rsync /a/ /x
will create directories /x/b and /x/c.
Presumably, this is to get around the problem where you want to copy all
of the contents of a remote directory, but you can't use globbing, because
that's expanded locally, by the shell.
Given the whole globbing issue, I happen to think that scp's approach is
less hateful; if you pass it globbing characters (quoting them to protect
them from your shell), it uses a shell on the other system to expand them
remotely. (But, of course, that will probably miss dot files unless you
specify them explicitly.)
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