On Jul 10, 12:03 pm, mgi...@motorola.com (Gary Duzan) wrote: > In article > <3af970b1-b454-4d56-a33f-889ecfaca...@l28g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, > > Bryan <bryanv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >rsyncExec = '/usr/bin/ssh' > >source = 'r...@10.0.45.67:/home/bry/jquery.lookup' > >dest = '/home/bry/tmp' > >rshArg = '-e "/usr/bin/ssh -i /home/bry/keys/brybackup.key"' > >args = [rsyncExec, '-a', '-v', '--dry-run', rshArg, source, dest] > > I think you want -e and the ssh command to be separate args. > Something like: > > rshArg = '/usr/bin/ssh -i /home/bry/keys/brybackup.key' > args = [rsyncExec, '-a', '-v', '--dry-run', '-e', rshArg, source, dest] > > or: > > rshArgs = [ '-e', '/usr/bin/ssh -i /home/bry/keys/brybackup.key' ] > args = [rsyncExec, '-a', '-v', '--dry-run'] + rshArgs + [ source, dest] > > Gary Duzan > Motorola H&NM
Separating the argument parts worked. Strangely though, I don't need to do that for arguments such as --files-from='/path/to/file'. Also, in this example code I had the rsync executable path pointing to the ssh program, so no wonder I was getting the output of ssh! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
