Bash scripting rsync: rsync: link_stat (blah) failed: No such file or directory (2)
bash, rsync, scripting
Solution
Check that your `\` characters have no whitespace after them at the end of the line. This will cause BASH to not interpret the line wrap correctly, giving the rsync error above.
Problem
I am trying to write a simple bash script for my local (Mac OS X) machine to move files from a directory on my machine to a remote machine. This line is failing: ``` rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=ssh \ --recursive --times --perms --links --delete \ --exclude "*bak" --exclude "*~" \ /repository/* $DEV_SERVER:$REMOTE_DIR ``` `$DEV_SERVER` and `$REMOTE_DIR` are defined previously, and I echo them to verify they're accurate. The error I'm getting is: ``` rsync: link_stat /Users/myusername/mycurrentdirectory failed: No such file or directory (2) ``` To note here is that rather than using the defined directory (`/repository`, which is in the root of the machine), it uses my working directory. What is causing this?