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Thanks to Tim Conway and Phil Marek. The correct way(s) to synchronize two directory trees is to avoid a trailing "*" after the origin directory (either use a . or nothing) rsync -rlptPzu --delete /scratch/temp/Departure/. /scratch/temp/Arrival/ rsync -rlptPzu --delete /scratch/temp/Departure/ /scratch/temp/Arrival/ I was misled by my first tests rsync -rlptPzu --delete /scratch/temp/Departure /scratch/temp/Arrival which created Arrival/Departure and over-did it adding /* to Depa...

...e correct run string I need I am running tests LOCALLY between two test directories. I have a /scratch/temp/Departure and a /scratch/temp/Arrival trees. I apply changes to the Departure tree, run rsync, and do a diff -r. Now I delete a file in Departure rm Departure/Quattro/uno.file rsync -vvv -rlptPzu --delete \ /scratch/temp/Departure/* /scratch/temp/Arrival/ and it does work (deletes file from Arrival/Quattro/uno.file) Now I delete the only other file in the same directory rm Departure/Quattro/due.file and repeat rsync and it works too. Now Departure/Quattro is empty so I can remove it...