I'd like to use the --files-from option with a pipe - either a named pipe or in a pipeline where rsync reads from stdin.
The problem is that --files-from seems to tell rsync to read until EOF, construct the file list, transfer files and then terminate. The fact that there's only 1 rsync process on the source end seems to confirm this. --files-from probably pre-dates the fairly recent incremental file-list transmission feature by a couple of years, so reading incrementally from a pipe probably wasn't considered when --files-from was implemented... because it wouldn't have been possible. So, can someone who knows the code please guestimate whether it would be easy to "fix" rsync so that --files-from can read from a pipe and use the incremental file-list stuff to transfer whatever files who's names it can read between each time reading from the pipe blocks? I guess this would mean that it would have to read one filename at a time and process it. So, would that be easy? If the answer is "easy" then I'll have a go at implementing it... :-) peace & happiness, martin -- 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
