On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:02:23PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:40:05PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > One specifying subpaths and the other for those having a shared > > prefix. > > I don't see why this is needed. For instance, your example of a shared > prefix: > > > find srcdir | myfilter | rsync --file-list - srcdir destloc > > would be easily written without any sharing: > > find srcdir | myfilter | rsync --file-list - . destloc
that would produce destloc/srcdir/.... when you might want a copy of srcdir at destloc instead of in destloc. > > or: > > find /foo/bar | myfilter | rsync --file-list - / destloc And that would produce destloc/foo/bar/... What if you wanted destloc/bar/... or destloc/... That could be achieved with "rsync --file-list - /foo destloc" or "rsync --file-list - /foo/bar destloc" respectively > Am I missing something? The scope of source also affects what constitutes a safe symlink. > > > doing > > rsync --file-list-relative - src dest <<EOL" > > file1 > > file2 > > dir1/file3 > > EOL > > would actually sync > > src/file1 > > src/file2 > > src/dir1 > > src/dir1/file3 > > to > > dest/file1 > > dest/file2 > > dest/dir1 > > dest/dir1/file3 > > I think that should only happen if the --relative option is set. > Otherwise all 3 files should go directly into "dest". I don't think so. --relative would create dest/src/file1 dest/src/file2 dest/src/dir1 dest/src/dir1/file3 Would it not? The point here is to tell rsync "sync these files from this location to this other location" Consider find /foo/bar | myfilter | while read f; do rsync $f destloc${f#/foo/bar}; done and --include-from filelist --exclude '*' --exclude '*/' These are what we currently tell people to do. The first has lots of overhead for the session setup and teardown and fork/exec. The second has you walking entire file trees comparing patterns (apparently non-intuitive) when we only care about a set list of files. In any case the --file-list approach will meet peoples real (and imagined) needs in a much more direct way. At this time, i don't need this functionality myself. But this hits the list quite frequently and i thought it would be good to discuss what it should look like before someone cranks out a patch that is poorly thought out. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html