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

In article <46D6F986.4040106 at pagestation.com>,
Jerry Geis <geisj at 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
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