Rsync people, I am preparing to overhaul my Web site's build system, and I am looking for a convenient way to collect files and directories from various places on my computer and put them at various locations inside a destination directory to be posted to my Web site. So far, my script has been running rsync once for each source, but this is too slow. Is there a way to get rsync to collect many sources in one pass to destination locations more flexible than those that --relative will allow me?
For example, suppose I want to copy sources something like this: ~/main-web-content/ -> ~/www/ ~/logicdes/ -> ~/www/logicdes/ ~/bigint/svn-repo/ -> ~/www/bigint-svn/ ~/vectors/vectors.tex -> ~/www/math/vectors.tex ~/mirror/mirror-latest/ -> ~/www/mirror/bin/ and so forth. All the sources go different places inside ~/www and together make up everything I want in ~/www, so I would like the ability to delete extraneous files. But the parts of the destination paths following ~/www are not always suffixes of the source paths, so --relative with dot-dirs is not good enough. If, as I suspect, support for such rearrangement of sources would require a new syntax, let me propose the following. When --relative is repeated, the sending rsync takes source arguments (or --files-from lines) in pairs: the first gives the real location of the source and the second gives the prefix to put on the source filenames in the file list. Then these two calls would be equivalent: rsync -r foo/src bar/othersrc dest/ rsync -r -RR foo/src src bar/othersrc othersrc dest/ as would these: rsync -r -R foo/src bar/./othersrc dest/ rsync -r -RR foo/src foo/src bar/othersrc othersrc dest/ -- Matt McCutchen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hashproduct.metaesthetics.net/ -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html