rsync -rtva -e ssh --delete Documents/Work user@hostname:~/Documents
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r recurisve
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t preserve times
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v verbose
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a archive - preserve ownership permisions, timestamp, same as -rlptgoD
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e ssh - specify the remote shell to use
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delete - delete extraneous files from dest dirs
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n dry-run
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z compress data during transfer
rsync -zav Documents/Work user@hostname:~/Documents
rsync -avz foo:src/bar /data/tmp
This would recursively transfer all files from the directory src/bar on the machine foo into the /data/tmp/bar directory on the local machine.
rsync -avz foo:src/bar/ /data/tmp
A trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to avoid creating an additional directory level at the destination. You can think of a trailing / on a source as meaning "copy the con‐tents of this directory" as opposed to "copy the directory by name", but in both cases the attributes of the containing directory are transferred to the containing directory on the destination. In other words, each of the following commands copies the files in the same way, including their setting of the attributes of /dest/foo:
rsync -av /src/foo /dest
rsync -av /src/foo/ /dest/foo