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
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