http://netvouz.com/aleph/tag/depth?feed=rss aleph's bookmarks tagged "depth" on Netvouz http://superuser.com/questions/676671/rsync-does-not-delete-source-directories up vote 9 down vote The manpage even says: --remove-source-files sender removes synchronized files (non-dirs) If you want to remove empty directories in your source, if there are still files left, do a: find . -depth -type d -empty -delete tech aleph Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:53:54 GMT