Re: rsync --delete

[Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>]

Hi Mike,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:09:42PM -0500, Mike McClain wrote:
> A section of the backup script is so:
> Params=(-a --inplace --delete);
> Flash=/sda/rpi4b
> cd /home/mike
> [ ! -d $Flash/mike ] && mkdir $Flash/mike;
> 
> #   exclude compressed files and the contents of most of the .* directories
> /mc/bin/mk_rsync_exclude.sh
> echo /usr/bin/rsync $Params --exclude-from=/home/mike/.rsync_exclude . $Flash/mike

shellcheck has this to say:

$ shellcheck ./foo.sh 

In ./foo.sh line 6:
echo /usr/bin/rsync $Params --exclude-from=/home/mike/.rsync_exclude . $Flash/mike
                    ^-- SC2128: Expanding an array without an index only gives the first element.

It's worth using shellcheck.

Cheers,
Andy

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