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Synchronize Files And Directories
rsync
is a very handy tool for syncing the files and folders in two directories. rsync
only copies files that have changed since the time they were sync’d.
Make Two Directories
mkdir origin destination
Add Files In Origin Directory
touch origin/file.txt
View Origin Directory Contents
ls -l origin
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 0 Jul 31 20:04 file.txt
View Destination Directory Contents
ls -l destination
total 0
Sync Origin Directory To Destination Directory
In this code we sync (rsync
) all the files and subdirectories (-a
) in origin
to destination
while printing out details of the process (v
), deleting (--delete
) any files in destination
that no longer exist in origin
.
rsync -av --delete origin destination
sending incremental file list
origin/
origin/file.txt
sent 136 bytes received 39 bytes 350.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
View Destination Directory Contents
Notice that file.txt
in origin
is now copied over to destination/origin
.
ls -l destination/origin
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 0 Jul 31 20:04 file.txt