Kevin Korb wrote (Monday, November 05, 2012 5:48 PM): > Well, I am thinking that this is actually expected behavior that I had > just never seen before. Even cat and ls duplicate this behavior.
Not quite: while the coreutils programs issue an error message for zero-lenght file names as it's required by POSIX, rsync does not. $ ls -l '' /bin/ls: : No such file or directory $ mkdir a b && cd a && touch f && rsync '' -ai . ../b/. >f+++++++ f $ rsync -ai '' ../b/. $ Have a nice day, Berny -- 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
