rsync - Sep 2012 - I found a buggie

Hello, people. Sorry but I found that when you do rsync to a not created
destination it makes a mkdir in order to accomplish the work. The problem
comes when there are some uncreated parents in the destination directories.
That's just because in the builtin mkdir isn't specified the -p option.
Thus, the problem is solved just adding the -p option to the built in mkdir
in the code you wrote.

Thank you very much for reading this letter.

Yours.

Greeting from Venezuela.
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On 26.09.2012 23:45, Carlos Morel G?mez La Roque wrote:
> Hello, people. Sorry but I found that when you do rsync to a not created
> destination it makes a mkdir in order to accomplish the work. The problem
> comes when there are some uncreated parents in the destination directories.
> That's just because in the builtin mkdir isn't specified the -p
option.
> Thus, the problem is solved just adding the -p option to the built in mkdir
> in the code you wrote.
As far as i remember this same topic came up a few years ago.

In short: That's intentional and not a bug.

Otherwise it's too easy to rsync to an unintended destination when you 
fat-fingered the destination.

And it would be a deviation from established behaviour and only 
acceptable with an explicit command-line-option so that the 
default-behaviour of rsync would be unchanged.



Bis denn

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