On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:14:22PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote:
> Is it possible to use pipes when specifying an inclusion list of files?
> I.e. is the following statement possible
>
> rsync -aLPv --include-from - --exclude '*' [source] [destination]
>
> where the - after --include-from denotes STDIN. Is there another way or
> syntax to do this? I'd like to use such a statement in a perl script.
>
> O. Wyss
Most modern operating systems allow you to specify /dev/fd/N where N is
the number of an open file descriptor. Stdin would be /dev/fd/0.
- Dave Dykstra
