Re: ssh & keep absolute local paths from --include-from=file remotely

2003-11-10 Thread Thomas Otto
So all I want is rsyncing files while preserving their _absolute_ paths on the target machine which doesn't seem possible. Check out the --relative (-R) option in the man page. That would let you do something like this: rsync -avR `cat /path/file-list` dest:/ Or, the CVS version of rsync which h

ssh & keep absolute local paths from --include-from=file remotely

2003-11-09 Thread Thomas Otto
Hi! I am trying to do a IMHO rather trivial thing with rsync via ssh: I have some files under /etc and some under /home/thomas, I want to rsync just these to a remote PC with a similar setup where they should end up in the same dirs, and this with a single rsync call. Bascially 'tar --files-fr