rsync - Jun 2004 - wildcard error in source path?

If I use :

rsync --delete -va dump/* remote::home

to mirror a local directory containing several files to a remote server then
these are copied as expected.

However, if I delete a file in 'dump' and do the command again then this
file in 'remote' is NOT deleted.

But this works:

rsync --delete -va dump/ remote::home

ie, the file on the server is deleted.

Is this a bug or are we not to use wildcards at the end of a source path?

-- 
Stuart Halliday
ECS Technology ltd
Registered in Scotland - #212513

Logically, this is correct behaviour, I think.

dump/* is a wildcard that matches every _existing_ local file in the 
dump/ directory. Since the file you deleted doesn't exist, it isn't 
considered by rsync.

dump/  tells rsync to compare the contents of the local dump/ directory 
with those of the remote one and, in your case, will delete on the 
remote host any files that don't exist locally.

Disclaimer: I haven't used --delete myself, so I could be wrong.

Terry.

Stuart Halliday wrote:
> If I use :
> 
> rsync --delete -va dump/* remote::home
> 
> to mirror a local directory containing several files to a remote server
then these are copied as expected.
> 
> However, if I delete a file in 'dump' and do the command again then
this file in 'remote' is NOT deleted.
> 
> But this works:
> 
> rsync --delete -va dump/ remote::home
> 
> ie, the file on the server is deleted.
> 
> Is this a bug or are we not to use wildcards at the end of a source path?
>