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No. I traced the heck out of it (bash -vx ...) and I was actually
sending a null parameter as the first argument to rsync and that made it
get out of bed on the wrong side.
Here are some more details as to what happened:
http://askubuntu.com/questi
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I suspect you are missing a space somewhere and are ending up with 2
parameters stuck together. You can have bash output the rsync command
line it intends to run to make sure or you can just use " " instead of
"" as extra spaces between parameters will
I'm working on a bash backup script using rsync.
(kubuntu precise 12.04, rsync 3.0.9-1ubuntu1)
To avoid having a number of slightly different rsync commands, I would
like to use shell variables as part of the rsync command. I.e.:
DRYRUN="-n"
rsync "${DRYRUN}" more parameters ...
This does not wo