Hi, I was just thinking about the possibility of a flag that provide rsync with a method that doesn't require a source dir in the line command. I mean, a method where the user just has to write a file which contents all directorys that wants to rsync (directorys without the same root), something like:
#cat files2rsync /home/user/a /usr/local/ /a_directory/a_file rsync -a --files-from=/home/user/files2rsync /backup_dir I know i can do something like rsync -a --files-from=/home/user/files2rsync / /backup_dir and modify the content of files2rsync, but i think it will be a good simplification and quite more "natural" to use.. anyway.. was just thinking loud Thanks! Judith pd: again excuse my english.. Paul Slootman wrote:
Read the manpage, the --files-from section, in particular this: The file names that are read from the FILE are all relative to the source dir -- any leading slashes are removed and no ".." references are allowed to go higher than the source dir. If you don't supply a source dir, to what directory should the file names be relative to? Paul Slootman
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