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The “cp” command is one of the commonly used commands to perform the copy operation. You can copy files or folders from source to destination, i-e, one directory through this command. The syntax of the “cp” command is: $ cp [options] [source…]
rsync works in one direction, so we need to run it twice to sync directories in both directions.
If you want to copy a directory with its sub-directory and all contents from one location to another within your system, you can do so as by typing rsync followed by the source and destination directory. Note: Specifying “/” after the source directory only copies the contents of the directory.
Similarly, the rsync skipping directory error can occur when miss to put it into a recursive mode like -r or -a. In addition, use -a instead of -r. -a means to reproduce file hierarchies, including special files and permissions. Also, the option -r only to recurse on directories whereas -a needed for a data backup.
rsync interprets a directory with no trailing slash as copy this directory, and a directory with a trailing slash as copy the contents of this directory.
Try rsync -av ~/foo/ [email protected]:/var/www/bar/
It's simple,
rsync /var/www/ /home/var - copies the contents of /var/www/ but not the www folder itself.
rsync /var/www /home/var - copies the folder www along with all its contents.
The "/" makes the difference.
Not related only to rsync, but when you are looking for examples on how to use a GNU/Linux command, you can use "eg" which displays explicit examples. eg is available here, with instructions on how to install it: https://github.com/srsudar/eg
The result for eg rsync is as follow
# rsync
copy the folder source_dir and its content into destination_dir
rsync -av source_dir destination_dir
copy the contents of source_dir (trailing slash) into destination_dir
rsync -av source_dir/ destination_dir
Navigate into the directory you would like to copy over, so:
cd ~/foo
Run this:
rsync -avz . [email protected]:/var/www/bar
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