I am trying to run the following rsync command from within a bash script on OSX
rsync -rav -e "ssh -i $KEYPAIR" --exclude ".git" --exclude '*.pyc' $SRC $DEST
The problem is I can't get rsync to use $SRC as an absolute path. It always includes the relative dir from which I'm calling the bash script. Even if I prepend the path with ~/. Is there anyway around this?
Seems like the value of $SRC is not starting with /, can you check this? If it does not start with / (ie. mnt/drive/), will be treated as a relative directory inside the current one. But if it starts with / (ie. /mnt/drive) it should work as you expect.