* Martin Pool:
> On 25 Aug 2003 Clemens Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [snip]
> You said "copy the file", so it copied the file. Oh, you wanted *the
> contents of* the file? You should have said so.
i did: "rsync localhost::rsync/readme /dev/st
* jw schultz:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:22:39PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:44:15 +0200
>> clemens fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > rsync should error exit or message the user when used on special
>> > files!
>> No, I
rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
"promotes" character special files to regular files:
--8<---cut here:--start--->8--
# ll /dev/stdout
8282 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel - 22, 1 Aug 23 17:30 /dev/stdout
# rsync localhost::rsync/readme /dev/stdout
$Id: readme,v 1
* 2003-06-20 jw schultz:
> It doesn't copy files that don't appear to have changed.
> I've used cpio instead of cp myself to take advantage of
> such improvements.
how did you use cpio? could you please post the command line?
clemens
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