On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:58:43PM -0700, Rajesh Prabhu wrote: > Now that im able to get the attribute of a file(whether its hidden or > not) using attrib.exe, is there a way to transfer such hidden files > from windows machine to linux machine with a prepended "."?
To do this with the stock rsync, you'd need to script the renaming yourself somehow. For instance, create a local copy of the files, rename the ones that are hidden, and then rsync from the copied files. Or, rename them in-place, copy them, and then rename them back again (if that would not disrupt anything). Another alternative is an old patch named fname-convert.diff. This patch was last present in the 2.6.6 release. I didn't like the design for a few reasons, including how it would typically need to run a new convert command for every name. However, for what you're doing it would be perfect. If you created a script that would read a filename on stdin, check if the file is hidden or not, and then output either the unchanged filename or the name prepended with a dot, you could use a patched version of rsync with such a script to accomplish what you want. Finally, if you want to roll your own, look for the routine make_file() in flist.c: after the routine copies the name into the "thisname" buffer, you could modify it however you wish, but you should probably protect the tweaking-code via "if (am_sender)" so that it doesn't affect --delete processing when receiving files. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html