[CentOS] rsync arg list to long

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 15:56:09 UTC 2007


Please for the love of God fix how your client handles email threads.

On 8/30/07, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:

> I was trying to do "rsync -a root at machine2:/somedirectory ."
>
> There are multiple directories under the tree and yes many files.
>
> also tried "scp -r root at machine2:/somedirectory ." with the same result of too many files.

How many files are in the directory here? I've never run across this
sort of thing acting on the directory and not the files themselves.


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