rsync ownership oddity - bug or feature?

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Thu Apr 21 13:09:07 UTC 2022


On Wed, 2022-04-20 at 21:51 -0500, Keith wrote:
> Assuming your shell is bash, enable the shell option "dotglob".

Thanks, Keith.

For the moment, I have fixed things by doing a chown after the rsync. 

Your fix is better, but it seriously should not be needed.

I put in a feature request to the maintainer, you never know  :-)

Regards, K.

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