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Is rsync ~/foo target/foo the same as Is rsync ~/foo/ target/foo/?

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  • I included full test results illustrating the answer to this question, in my answer here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/384837/135943 – Wildcard Jan 27 '18 at 01:32

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No. The trailing slash on the source directory determines whether the directory and its contents or just its contents will be copied. And that's all that matters.

Given:

a/b
a/c

Then:

$ rsync a/ d/
$ ls d
b
c

But:

$ rsync a d/
$ ls d
a

The trailing slash on the destination, on the other hand, doesn't matter.

The fact that your example already has a directory in the destination with the same name as the source directory is not really important...target/foo is always destination. In the examples above just replace a with ~/foo and d with target/foo and it works the same...

$ rsync ~/foo/ target/foo/
$ ls target/foo
b
c

...and...

$ rsync ~/foo target/foo
$ ls target/foo
foo
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