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Big Brother tells me that Dean Scothern wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using a perl wrapper aroung rsync to transfer largish number of files
> without using too much ram. I understand the format of the exclude files now and
> been moderately sucessful. However everynow and again get naughty files and
> directories that end with a space or newline ;-) How may I transfer these
> files. I cannot use the faq method exclusively because I run out of arg space.
> I suppose I could modify rsync to accept a file list from stdin, or I could
> detect the bad files and dirs and do them individually. Any suggestions please?
Just modify your script to accept standard in:
$ cd backupme ; ls | rsync.pl
rsync.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Consider me pseudocode!
#
while(<>)
{
chop;
system "rsync -rRptl $_ backupuser@backuphost:./backupdir";
}
Even better would be to collect several at a time before making the
call to rsync.
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