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Reputation: 30505

How do I rsync a file to a remote directory that doesn't exist?

Suppose I want to rsync file foo.txt on my local machine to file /home/me/somedirectory/bar.txt on a remote computer, and that somedirectory/ doesn't yet exist. How do I do this?

I tried rsync -e ssh -z foo.txt remotemachine:/home/me/somedirectory/bar.txt, but I get a rsync: push_dir#3 "/home/me/somedirectory" failed: No such file or directory (2) error.

(Copying the file without renaming it works, though. That is, this runs fine: rsync -e ssh -z foo.txt remotemachine:/home/me/somedirectory/`)

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6641

Answers (2)

Akshay Patil
Akshay Patil

Reputation: 970

You can do this process successfully in 2 stepes:-

1] rsync -e ssh -z foo.txt remotemachine:/home/me/somedirectory/ this will copy the foo.txt and create directory somedirectory on destination.

then

2] rsync -e ssh -z --delete-after foo.txt remotemachine:/home/me/somedirectory/bar.txt

and here you can delete foo.txt on destination by using --delete-after option. you can see it's usage from man pages. This option must be used with -r option This serves your purpose.

or if second command doesn't work then use :- rsync -e ssh -z foo.txt remotemachine:/home/me/somedirectory/bar.txt and delete foo.txt manually.

Upvotes: 1

James Parks
James Parks

Reputation: 51

Just put a trailing slash on your target dir. Something like this:

rsync foo.txt remotemachine:somedirectory/

Assuming that "/home/me" is your home dir on the remote machine, there is no need to specify it in the command line. Also, you don't need to clutter up your rsync with the -e unless you just like to do that.

Upvotes: 5

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