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Tombart
Tombart

Reputation: 32388

Rsync copy directory contents but not directory itself

I'm trying to synchronize two contents of folders with different name:

rsync -av ~/foo [email protected]:/var/www/bar

I'd like to copy the content of foo into bar at remote host, but not the directory foo itself. I've tried something like foo/*, but rsync doesn't support that.

rsync always creates 

/var/www/bar/foo

Upvotes: 218

Views: 100207

Answers (4)

Marcelo Guedes
Marcelo Guedes

Reputation: 1535

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.

Upvotes: 103

Protostome
Protostome

Reputation: 6019

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/

Upvotes: 331

Dan612
Dan612

Reputation: 31

Navigate into the directory you would like to copy over, so:

cd ~/foo

Run this:

rsync -avz . [email protected]:/var/www/bar

Upvotes: 3

Olivier
Olivier

Reputation: 2162

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

Upvotes: 36

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