rsync with the --delete option

sallender · #1 (**permalink**) 10-19-2005

Tell me this - set me straight!

the --delete option says "delete files that don't exist on the sending side"

Does this mean and only mean that it will delete files from the DESTINATION that DON'T EXIST on the sending side?

Perderabo · #2 (**permalink**) 10-22-2005

Imagine this case.....

source: one.txt two.txt three.txt
destination: zero.txt one.txt

Rsync might need to freshen up one.txt. And it certainly needs to copy two.txt and three.txt. But this leaves the destination with an extra file --- zero.txt. So the destination is not really a perfect copy of the source. --delete says that zero.txt should be deleted.

And yes it will only be deleted from the destination. (Were you afraid that it might be deleted from the source?

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