I am trying to do rsync between two directories I have in two filesystems connected to the same computer. I want to do it without deleting the extra files in b. I though a simple rsync -a a/dir b/dir would work, but it doesn't seem to. This is on a Linux system with rsync version 3.0.6 protocol version 30:
$ mkdir -p a/test $ mkdir -p b/test $ touch a/test/file1 $ touch a/test/file2 $ touch b/test/file3 $ tree a/test b/test a/test ├── file1 └── file2 b/test └── file3 0 directories, 3 files $ rsync -a a/test/ b/ $ tree a/test b/test a/test ├── file1 └── file2 b/test └── file3 0 directories, 3 files The same command does work when I use it on a different Linux system with a slightly newer version of rsync (rsync version 3.0.9 protocol version 30). Any ideas what am I missing?
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Answering my own question, it seems like the problem is with the slash at the end of the SRC dir:
rsync -a a/test/ b/ vs
rsync -a a/test b/ 
