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		mindslight on Aug 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to delete all your files Funnily enough, rsync is one of the commands for which you might be more tempted to use * instead of going up a directory, because the relative path names go over the wire.

em-bee on Aug 24, 2020 [–]

besides ./* i also like to use star.ext or even a* b* c* depending on the contents of the directory.

rsync also used the local/only/path/./local/and/remote/path convention where the path before the /./ is not sent to the remote side

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