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You almost never need to use "*". Use ".", or go up a dir and type the name of the dir.

• mixmastamyk 6y ago
  Yes thanks. I thought running rsync with a "*" looked odd, but didn't completely understand why until now.
  • mindslight 6y ago
    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 6y ago
      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