rsync {braces} fail?

Question

I need some help in this issue:

I want sync /path/first/ with /path/second/, /path/third/ ..etc

so I've tried this:

rsync -rv /path/first/ /path/{second,third,fourth}/

But it worked only for last directory. What's wrong? Thanks.

Answer 1

rsync only takes one target. Use a for loop instead.

for dest in {second,third,fourth}
do
  rsync -rv /path/first/ /path/"$dest"/
done

Answer 2

How about it?

for qw in `ls -d /path/*`; do  rsync -rv /path/first /path/$qw; done