X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: "'Not Marvin Rishoff At ALL, what kind of nonsense is this?'" References: <1124138508.20070507010012@mail.ru> <46414199.8080708@streamguys.com> <1499567591.20070510045924@mail.ru> Subject: RE: Re[2]: rsync with --recursive --files-from= Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 20:11:56 +0100 Message-ID: <045f01c7926d$e8ec7690$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <1499567591.20070510045924@mail.ru> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 09 May 2007 19:59, oleyk wrote: DO NOT USE FALSE EMAIL ADDRESSES OLEYK. Look at the From: line of your post. "cygwin at cygwin dot com" is *not* the address of Marvin Rishoff. > i'm sorry, but: > > $ rsync --version > rsync version 2.4.6 protocol version 24 > i have no option "--files-from=". i can't check. Ok, so you've got an ancient version of rsync that the feature wasn't implemented in, so you can't help: why are you even posting? You may as well save yourself the effort! > try so: > > Dave Korn> Show us the contents of 'list'. Perhaps some of the filenames > Dave Korn> need escaping in some fashion. I'm sure Marvin is perfectly capable of reading the reply I sent all by himself, without needing you to pointlessly repeat it for him, but thanks anyway. > and > > /usr/bin/rsync -avz --files-from=`find ./WMS_*.log -mtime -7 -print` ... > No, that's no use at all, because the result of the backticks would not be the name of a file that contains a list of files to use, it would the *contents* of the list. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/