Dave Dykstra wrote > What Hadmut wants is the oft-requested and discussed "files-from" option > that I once offered to write but haven't been able to get to. Andy Schor > in http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-November/005272.html posted > a patch for something similar but it only worked when the sender was on the > local machine and not when it was remote (among other issues). I don't > believe you've posted your patch, Justin; does your "files-from" directly > contain the list of files to send and skip the recursive traversal? If so, > I don't see the point of having rsync have the extra regex options you > mention because those could all be done by external greps that pre-process > the file list.
Mine is also victim to the "sender on the local machine" problem, although that could be easily rectified. By default, my files-from doesn't do any recursive processing, but you can control this on a per-file basis within the list of filenames. Here's an example : /a/file /another/file /some/directory /some/other/directory 1 would recurse on /some/other/directory but nothing else. I also made the list of files base-64 encoded to avoid some obvious problems, and it works with all filenames (ascii, UTF-N). -justinb -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
