Commit 9639c718 authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

+ Put --existing back in the main option summary.

+ Improved the discussion of wildcard characters.
parent d2da915c
......@@ -329,8 +329,8 @@ to the detailed description below for a complete description. verb(
-B, --block-size=SIZE force a fixed checksum block-size
-e, --rsh=COMMAND specify the remote shell to use
--rsync-path=PROGRAM specify the rsync to run on remote machine
--existing ignore non-existing files on receiving side
--ignore-existing ignore files that already exist on receiver
--ignore-non-existing ignore files that don't exist on receiver
--remove-sent-files sent files/symlinks are removed from sender
--del an alias for --delete-during
--delete delete files that don't exist on sender
......@@ -734,16 +734,14 @@ dit(bf(-x, --one-file-system)) This tells rsync not to cross filesystem
boundaries when recursing. This is useful for transferring the
contents of only one filesystem.
dit(bf(--existing, --ignore-non-existing)) This tells rsync to skip
updating files that do not exist yet on the destination. If this option is
combined with the bf(--ignore-existing) option, no files will be updated
(which can be useful if all you want to do is to delete missing files).
dit(bf(--ignore-existing)) This tells rsync to skip updating files that
already exist on the destination. See also bf(--ignore-non-existing).
dit(bf(--ignore-non-existing)) This tells rsync to skip updating files that
do not exist yet on the destination. If this option is combined with the
bf(--ignore-existing) option, no files will be updated (which can be useful
if all you want to do is to delete missing files). Note that in older
versions of rsync, this option was named bf(--existing), so this older
name is still accepted as an alias.
dit(bf(--remove-sent-files)) This tells rsync to remove from the sending
side the files and/or symlinks that are newly created or whose content is
updated on the receiving side. Directories and devices are not removed,
......@@ -1586,12 +1584,17 @@ itemize(
of the transfer.
it() if the pattern ends with a / then it will only match a
directory, not a file, link, or device.
it() if the pattern contains a wildcard character from the set
*?[ then expression matching is applied using the shell filename
matching rules. Otherwise a simple string match is used.
it() the double asterisk pattern "**" will match slashes while a
single asterisk pattern "*" will stop at slashes.
it() if the pattern contains a / (not counting a trailing /) or a "**"
it() rsync chooses between doing a simple string match and wildcard
matching by checking if the pattern contains one of these three wildcard
characters: '*', '?', and '[' .
it() a '*' matches any non-empty path component (it stops at slashes).
it() use '**' to match anything, including slashes.
it() a '?' matches any character except a slash (/).
it() a '[' introduces a character class, such as [a-z] or [[:alpha:]].
it() in a wildcard pattern, a backslash can be used to escape a wildcard
character, but it is matched literally when no wildcards are present.
it() if the pattern contains a / (not counting a trailing /) or a "**",
then it is matched against the full pathname, including any leading
directories. If the pattern doesn't contain a / or a "**", then it is
matched only against the final component of the filename.
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