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I'm trying to use rsync to make a remote dir identical to my local version,
so I do something like (with the "my" stuff below suitably replaced)

rsync -avhe 'ssh -p 7822' --progress --delete 
 /mylocaldir myusername@myremotehost:~/myremotedir`

The output of the command indicates warnings but no error message :

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
 LANGUAGE = (unset),
 LC_ALL = (unset),
 LC_NUMERIC = "c",
 LANG = "fr_FR.UTF-8"
 are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
building file list ... 
70 files to consider
Online/index.html
 582 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=67/70)

sent 2.28K bytes received 48 bytes 665.71 bytes/sec
total size is 919.11K speedup is 394.47

But when I check on the remote dir, nothing has been updated. I tried it several times.
What is happening here ?
Any help appreciated.

Update, in answer to the first comment below : here is the content of my /etc/profile file :

# System-wide .profile for sh(1)

if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
 eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi

if [ "$BASH-no" != "no" ]; then
 [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
fi

rsync is running, so the locale error message is not critical. Instead, I suspect that your two directory definitions are not quite what you want, and you may be looking in the wrong place for the files.

You have a source /mylocaldir and a destination ~/myremotedir. This will create ~/myremotedir/mylocaldir on the target, and that's where the files will be placed.

If you want the contents of /mylocaldir to be copied to ~/myremotedir you need to provide a trailing / on the source directory, like this:

rsync -avh -e 'ssh -p 7822' --progress --delete 
 /mylocaldir/ myusername@myremotehost:myremotedir

_{NB I've split the command over two lines for readability. As written it's valid shell syntax, but remove the character on the end of the first line and join them together if you prefer.}

The perl error message about locales will be coming from some program that's executed as part of your login process. It might be path_helper, which seems to be a MacOS application so I can't advise you on the importance or otherwise of commenting it out, or it could be something in /etc/bashrc.

Rather than trying to identify the offending application, another option, of course, is to install the French locale files on your target system, so that the error is no longer triggered.