[PLUG] rsync: no; scp: yes
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Jun 20 14:11:48 UTC 2015
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Dale Snell wrote:
> If memory and my interpretation of the man page are correct (and neither
> may be, I've not had my morning caffeine yet), rsync requires you to
> specify an absolute path for the destination. Hence
>
> rsync -avz host:/path/to/dir/subdir/ .
>
> should work.
Dale,
Yep, it should. And that's worked many times before. The terminal slash
prevents creation of another subdirectory with the same name on the target
host.
> Nope. To quote the man page, 'As a special case, if a single source arg is
> specified without a destination, the files are listed in an output format
> similar to "ls -l".'
Thought so.
I was surprised when rsync failed in the two tries before I switched to
scp.
Thanks,
Rich
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