On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 04:03:51PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I want to copy /home and /opt from one host to another, including all
> dotfiles (common in /home).
>
> Operating within the destination directory would this the the optimal pair
> of commands to use?
>
> shopt -s dotglob
> rsync -av salmo:/home/* ./
No need to set dotglob or use a splat in the source path. rsync will
find your dotfiles. The following should work just fine:
rsync -av salmo:/home/ .
The trailing slash in the source path tells rsync to copy the contents
of the directory into the destination path. Otherwise it would create
a new directory (home/) under the destination path.
The "dry run" option (-n) is your best friend when trying to figure
out a correct rsync command line. It'll show you everything that
would have happened, without actually making any changes.
--
Paul Mullen
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