rsync - Sep 2005 - Delete But Don't Copy

Is it possible to use RSYNC to only delete files that exist at the destination,
but not the source.  I would like RSYNC to remove files that exist at the
destination but do not exist at the source WITHOUT copying or creating any
additional files.

If RYSNC can't do this, does someone know a nice way?  Perhaps, find
<regex> > listing.txt && find <destinationregex> >
destination.txt && diff listing.txt destination.txt | rm the
differences?  (seems kind of ugly to me though).

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:29:28AM -0400, Ryan Kather
wrote:
> Is it possible to use RSYNC to only delete files that exist at the
> destination, but not the source.  I would like RSYNC to remove files
> that exist at the destination but do not exist at the source WITHOUT
> copying or creating any additional files.  
You can use these seemingly conflicting options:

    --existing --ignore-existing
    
This tells rsync to not update any files at all, allowing deletions to
happen normally.  (The first option would be more appropriately named
--ignore-non-existing, thus ignoring both existing and non-existing
files.)

..wayne..