rsync

Transfer files either to or from a remote host (but not between two remote hosts), by default using SSH. To specify a remote path, use user@host:path/to/file_or_directory. More information: <https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.1>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/rsync.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install rsync
Ubuntu
apt-get install rsync
Alpine
apk add rsync
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S rsync
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install rsync
CentOS
yum install rsync
Fedora
dnf install rsync
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rsync
OS X
brew install rsync
Raspbian
apt-get install rsync
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/rsync
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/rsync rsync powered by Commando

Transfer files either to or from a remote host (but not between two remote hosts), by default using SSH. To specify a remote path, use user@host:path/to/file_or_directory. More information: <https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/rsync.1>.

  • Transfer a file:
    rsync path/to/source path/to/destination
  • Use archive mode (recursively copy directories, copy symlinks without resolving, and preserve permissions, ownership and modification times):
    rsync --archive path/to/source path/to/destination
  • Compress the data as it is sent to the destination, display verbose and human-readable progress, and keep partially transferred files if interrupted:
    rsync --compress --verbose --human-readable --partial --progress path/to/source path/to/destination
  • Recursively copy directories:
    rsync --recursive path/to/source path/to/destination
  • Transfer directory contents, but not the directory itself:
    rsync --recursive path/to/source/ path/to/destination
  • Use archive mode, resolve symlinks and skip files that are newer on the destination:
    rsync --archive --update --copy-links path/to/source path/to/destination
  • Transfer a directory to a remote host running `rsyncd` and delete files on the destination that do not exist on the source:
    rsync --recursive --delete rsync://host:path/to/source path/to/destination
  • Transfer a file over SSH using a different port than the default (22) and show global progress:
    rsync --rsh 'ssh -p port' --info=progress2 host:path/to/source path/to/destination

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