rsync - Mar 2005 - feature request

One of my pet peeves with rsync is that I too often end up writing

1. rsync a/ h:

when I meant

2. rsync a h:

This is because my shell leaves the trailing slash when I complete
directories. I'm not going to reconfigure my shell just for rsync -
besides, I like the trailing slash as a visual indicator that
something is a directory. But cleaning up from accidental invocation
of #1 is a real pain. Until now I've just been remembering to delete
the slash, but what would be nicer is an option to turn off the
special interepretation of terminal slashes in source paths. Would
this be hard to code? Then I'd make an alias with this option, and
when I wanted to recover the functionality I'd just write:

3. rsync a/. h:

I think #3 does the same thing as #1, is this correct? Let me know if
this is a reasonable suggestion.

Thanks,

Frederik

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On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 12:33:27AM -0800, Frederik Eaton
wrote:
> what would be nicer is an option to turn off the special
> interepretation of terminal slashes in source paths.
That would be easy enough to do in a shell function that you could use
to wrap up your rsync invocations.  It would scan the args and discard
any trailing slashes it finds and then invoke rsync.
> I think [a/.] does the same thing as [a/], is this correct?
Yes.

..wayne..