On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:06:41AM -0700, Rob McMillin wrote:
> Globbing is asymmetric from the user's point of view. It's provided
> for remote servers but not local ones. This qualifies as a Surprise.
No, this is how is should work. You quote globbing in order to avoid
having the local shell
You wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 03:37:21PM -0700, Rob McMillin wrote:
>> This is on rsync v2.4.5 on RedHat 7.3.
>>
>> If I do something like
>>
>> rsync ... 'somehost:/path/to/files.*' /local/path
>>
>> it works fine, but if I do
>>
>> rsync ... '/local/path/to/files.*' somehost:/path/
jw schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm no writer but i have been toying with the idea of a
> practical "how the rsync utility works for the
> non-mathematician" document. This wouldn't be a how-to but
> would instead describe in broad terms what the rsync
> internals are doing, the three proces
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:12:04PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Fri 12 Sep 2003, jw schultz wrote:
> > >
> > > i did: "rsync localhost::rsync/readme /dev/stdout" given the hype
> > > "rsync(1) is an improved cp(1)" (which it is, no doubt about that)
> >
> > I don't know where you got that id
On Fri 12 Sep 2003, jw schultz wrote:
> >
> > i did: "rsync localhost::rsync/readme /dev/stdout" given the hype
> > "rsync(1) is an improved cp(1)" (which it is, no doubt about that)
>
> I don't know where you got that idea. You keep repeating it
> despite its obvious incorrectness. I certainl
