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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
