-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:04:43AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am looking for an option in rsync, which I can not find any more. I read > the > manual, but in the manual I could nor find the optiuon I am looking for. > > In earlier versions, there was rsync -av -d, where "-d" was the tag, which > did, what I wanted: I want to delete any files in the target,. when they are > not existing in the source.
As others have said, this is --delete. Options -d and -D are taken for other things -- and I don't remember that "-d" has meant delete for quite a long time (say 10 years or so). > I am sure, this option stilll exists in the actual rsync version, but I can > not find it (although, there is a "--delete", but looks to do something else) No, this is what you are looking for. As Teemu pointed out, the --delete-* options are worth a look. For example, if you have big files (videos) which you rename often at the source, you better use option -y. Then rsync tries to use a suitable file at the target as basis instead of pushing the whole thing through the wire. Now, if *that* file has been deleted before... bad luck. So combining -y --delete-after (or better --delete-delay) can speed up things significantly. Unless... you are memory constrained or your wire is very fast. Decisions, decisions... ;-) Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlsswrMACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbd+wCdGfHA8A20cvVDw8uhB9ariro2 cQUAn3pbs7cA/2Cg2h+i5zHzL6kSSl/3 =SQjr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
