On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:33:23AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I am indebted! > > > > cool. If you do this kind of thing a lot you may find rsync's added > > features worthwhile. Rsync makes it very easy and fast to sync a large > > directory tree where only some files have changed. > > Right. I am *sort of* familiar with rsync. I think it's part of the > technology that is behind Gentoo's emerge, isn't it? I believe that portage/emerge uses it, yes. I find rsync nicer for most of my needs than FTP or scp. typically what I do is this, to push: rsync -auv file1 file2 ... user@hostname:/path/to/where/i/want/it or to pull: rsync -auv user@hostname:/path/to/something . It Just Works (tm). The only subtle gotcha I've found is that "rsync foo_directory ." does not mean the same thing as "rsync foo_directory/ ." ... this is explained clearly in the EXAMPLES section of the man page. Also I generally put this in my /etc/profile: export RSYNC_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's MEGATON WHORE BLADE! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
