On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 09:15 +0200, Mark, Oren wrote:
> Can I do it one single rsync command, giving a file containing list of
> paths as parameter, or do I need to run rsync for each file.
It looks like this is what you need.
--files-from=FILE
Using this option allows you to specify the exact list of files
to transfer (as read from the specified FILE or "-" for standard
input). It also tweaks the default behavior of rsync to make
transferring just the specified files and directories easier:
o The --relative (-R) option is implied, which preserves
the path information that is specified for each item in
the file (use --no-relative if you want to turn that
off).
o The --dirs (-d) option is implied, which will create
directories specified in the list on the destination
rather than noisily skipping them.
o The --archive (-a) option´s behavior does not imply
--recursive (-r), so specify it explicitly, if you want
it.
The file names that are read from the FILE are all relative to
the source dir -- any leading slashes are removed and no ".."
references are allowed to go higher than the source dir. For
example, take this command:
rsync -a --files-from=/tmp/foo /usr remote:/backup
If /tmp/foo contains the string "bin" (or even "/bin"), the
/usr/bin directory will be created as /backup/bin on the remote
host. If it contains "bin/" (note the trailing slash), the
immediate contents of the directory would also be sent (without
needing to be explicitly mentioned in the file -- this began in
version 2.6.4). In both cases, if the -r option was enabled,
that dir´s entire hierarchy would also be transferred (keep in
mind that -r needs to be specified explicitly with --files-from,
since it is not implied by -a). Also note that the effect of
the (enabled by default) --relative option is to duplicate only
the path info that is read from the file -- it does not force
the duplication of the source-spec path (/usr in this case).
In addition, the --files-from file can be read from the remote
host instead of the local host if you specify a "host:" in front
of the file (the host must match one end of the transfer). As a
short-cut, you can specify just a prefix of ":" to mean "use the
remote end of the transfer". For example:
rsync -a --files-from=:/path/file-list src:/ /tmp/copy
This would copy all the files specified in the /path/file-list
file that was located on the remote "src" host.
Now, here's something I'm wondering: is there a way, given a list of
unrelated (source, destination) pairs, to copy each source to the
corresponding destination in a single run of rsync?
--
Matt McCutchen, ``hashproduct''
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