Basically, I am trying to read a file on the network without taking up all of my bandwidth. Typically, I rsync the file very slowly with bwlimits and do a tail -f | grep "foo"
Instead of copying the whole file, I rather use some sort of pipe. thats all On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Matt McCutchen<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 22:57 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: >> Is it possible to stream the content of a file using rsync to stdout >> instead of placing it into a file? > > No. Consider rdiff, which lets you call each of the three steps of the > delta-transfer algorithm from a script. Or if you explain your use case > further, I might have more ideas. > > -- > Matt > > -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
