Unfortunately I have tried it without the quotes as well, with no luck.
$ sudo rsync -arv /home/*/domains/* /home/alex/foo/
[sudo] password for alex:
sending incremental file list
rsync: change_dir "/home/*/domains" failed: No such file or directory (2)
sent 18 bytes received 12 bytes 60.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1058)
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On Friday 29 October 2010 17:16:59 Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Alex Cartwright
<alexc...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> > rsync -arv '/home/*/domains/*' ~/
>
> That is a local copy, so you're quoting the wildcards tells the shell that
> they are literal characters in the filename. If you want the shell to do
> wildcard expansion, unquote the argument. The quotes would only be
> required if you need to send the wildcards to a remote host.
>
> ..wayne..
Regards
Alex Cartwright
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