On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:44:37PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote:
$ rsync -auv \ ftp.funet.fi::CPAN/modules/by-category/05_Networking_Devices_IPC/Net/* . \ | grep -v MOTD:
Cockpit error.
This isn't DOS. Don't use * when you want the all directory contents.
rsync -auv ftp.funet.fi::CPAN/modules/by-category/05_Networking_Devices_IPC/Net/ . Will work correctly and is safe from the local shell
globbing which would have given you an error message had you
been using csh with default options.
Oops, sorry, wrong command-line flags in the cut-n-paste. What I'm trying to do is just mirror a given directory *without* recursively descending into subdirs. The correct invocation to show the issue is
$rsync -lptv \ 'ftp.funet.fi::CPAN/modules/by-category/05_Networking_Devices_IPC/Net/*' . \ | grep -v MOTD:
If you leave off the '*' at the end you get this error:
client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option?
Inability to mirror large directories sure looks like a bug to me rather than 'cockpit error'. As I said, I'm happy to submit a patch.
-- Alan Burlison --
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