Re: Multiple wildcards in source

2010-10-29 Thread Alex Cartwright
$ sudo ls -la /home/*/domains/* ls: cannot access /home/*/domains/*: No such file or directory Bash 3.2, Debian Lenny Hum. On Friday 29 October 2010 23:02:06 Steven Levine wrote: > In <201010292152.10643.alexc...@googlemail.com>, on 10/29/10 > >at 09:52 PM, Alex Cartwright said: > >Unfortu

Re: Multiple wildcards in source

2010-10-29 Thread Steven Levine
In <201010292152.10643.alexc...@googlemail.com>, on 10/29/10 at 09:52 PM, Alex Cartwright said: >Unfortunately I have tried it without the quotes as well, with no luck. >$ sudo rsync -arv /home/*/domains/* /home/alex/foo/ >[sudo] password for alex:

Re: Multiple wildcards in source

2010-10-29 Thread Alex Cartwright
Unfortunately I have tried it without the quotes as well, with no luck. $ sudo rsync -arv /home/*/domains/* /home/alex/foo/ [sudo] password for alex:

Re: Multiple wildcards in source

2010-10-29 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Alex Cartwright wrote: > rsync -arv '/home/*/domains/*' ~/ > That is a local copy, so you're quoting the wildcards tells the shell that they are literal characters in the filename. If you want the shell to do wildcard expansion, unquote the argument. The quotes