rsync -tv --files-from="my list of files" / /home/user/configuration/
The examples in the man page description of --files-from do show the
source dir, but the description could certainly be more explicit that
one is required.
Matt
Thank you all.
It's amazing what a slash can do :-)
/Les
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 05:54:12PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> rsync -tv --files-from="my list of files" /home/user/configuration/
You're missing a path in that command, presumably the source path.
All names in a files-from file are relative to the source path, but
you can use "/" if you want th
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 17:54 +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
> Copy system configuration files to a directory on my
> (/home/user/configuration) home drive.
>
> I've made a text file with the files I want to copy, one file on each row.
>
> The command:
>
> rsync -tv --files-from="my list of files" /
