[CentOS] Re: rsync arg list to long - solved

In article 46D6F986.4040106@pagestation.com, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:

Doing " rsync -a /somedirectory/* . " doesnt work

If you have a ton of file in /somedirectory/ then the shell will complain when it tries to construct a list of arguments a mile long.

Doing " rsync -a /somedirectory . " does work.

Yes, and you should also note the difference between /somedirectory and /somedirectory/ which in rsync cause different things to happen.

If /somedir contains files a, and b, then this:

rsync -a /somedir /destdir

will create /destdir/somedir/a and /destdir/somedir/b

whereas:

rsync -a /somedir/ /destdir

will create /destdir/a and /destdir/b

Cheers Tony