rsync syntax question

[Stephen]

what Ed said... :-)

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Ed <plug at 0x1b.com> wrote:
> rsync -avH --progress dirname/ webhostname:www/differentdirname
>
> add the trailing / and it works on the contents - see the section on Usage:
> http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:36 PM,  <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>>
>> How can I modify the following syntax to copy a directory
>> to a different directory name?
>>
>> I currently use this:
>>
>> rsync -avH --progress dirname webhostname:www/
>>
>> Which works fine to update the contents of dirname.
>> But how could I modify this syntax so that it would
>> copy the contents of "dirname" to "differentdirname" ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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