On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 12:47 -0400, Sanjeev Sharma wrote: > Is this in rsync and I just can't find it, or if not, is there a way > to fake this OR, third possibility, is anyone working to add it? > > > For those who've never used this option - for the GNU cp & mv type > commands they have the > --target-dir="dir" > > option. It lets you put the destination directory as the first > argument to cp and mv instead of the last argument. > > They added the option to get cp & mv working well with xargs for > stuff like this: > > find ./ -type file -mindepth 3 -print0 | xargs -r0 cp > --target-dir=/home/sam/stuff/otherstuff/morestuff -- > > then xargs puts all of the files found by find after the --
The obvious approach is to use a wrapper script that moves its first argument to the end, like this: #!/bin/bash dest="$1" shift exec rsync "$@" "$dest" But if you're dynamically generating a list of source files, it might be appropriate to use --files-from rather than passing them as arguments. -- Matt -- 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
