Rsync files into container from host?

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Thank you so much for your slightly creative script and the complete rsync command, which are the very things I’m looking for, @stgraber. By the way, let me improve a little bit what you’ve created here (Take the .vim folder as an example):

  1. Install rsync for your LXC container instance, or there’ll appear a “remote command not found” error;
  2. chmod u+x ./fake-ssh (Make file fake-ssh executable);
  3. Run the rsync command whether or not your destination folder exists:
    rsync -avPz ./.vim/ -e ./fake-ssh myconainter:/tmp/.vim/
  4. Another option - the default style of Grsync:
    rsync -r -t --progress -s ./.vim/ -e ./fake-ssh myconainter:/tmp/.vim/

Please keep an eye on the trailing file separator “/” in both the source and the destination folders as rsync is sensitive to it. Without it, a redundant folder might be created in the destination folder.