rsync do actually support profile via option aliasing. rsync uses popt(3) to parse its command line options and popt allows you to define aliases, so you can pu

rsync do actually support profile via option aliasing. rsync uses popt(3) to parse its command line options and popt allows you to define aliases, so you can put something like this in ~/.popt: rsync alias --sync -rpcLDvz --chmod=D0755,F0644 A call "rsync --sync foo@bar:baz/ baz" will expand the command into "rsync -rpcLDvz --chmod=D0755,F0644 ...". The "program alias newopt opt" syntax is actually popt's thing (see Option Aliasing[1]) and it works with everything that uses popt(3) for its command line parsing. [1]: https://linux.die.net/man/3/popt https://linux.die.net/man/3/popt