On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 21:03 -0700, J. Ellis wrote: > So let me see if I understand correctly. First, are the \ characters > followed by a return, or are they all on a single line? In other words, is > this entered in the terminal as one command, or does it need to be broken up > somehow?
The \ is a notation for line continuation recognized by bash, among other programs. So you can either type the command with backslashes and returns as I gave it or put everything on a single line without backslashes. > And then each of the symlinks for the directories specified will be treated > as symlinks, Directories, I think you mean. > but any symlinks below them will still be treated as symlinks? Correct. It's magic. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html