On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 10:25:33 -0700 (PDT) Mark Milhollan wrote: > On Mon, 7 Sep 2015, Carl E. Hartung wrote: > >On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 13:05:59 -0400 > >Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > >> rsync -ah --stats --delete -e "ssh -p613 -l root" > >> 192.168.192.2:/etc/name* /home/rgm/data/htt/httnet/homebase/new/etc > > >Why '-e' (specify remote shell to use)? Are these systems running > >disparate operating systems? > > -e specifies the *local* transport command to use What?! Straight from the documentation: " -e, --rsh=COMMAND specify the remote shell to use" > , and in this case it also specifies the remote port (613) and user > (root). Granted one should probably use their ssh configuration to > do that but it isn't realy "wrong" (to be questioned) to do it via > options. I didn't explicitly state that it was "wrong," just implied (correctly) that it was unnecessary. > > > /mark regards, Carl