<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Alex Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexc223@googlemail.com">alexc223@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
rsync -arv '/home/*/domains/*' ~/<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is a local copy, so you're quoting the wildcards tells the shell that they are literal characters in the filename. If you want the shell to do wildcard expansion, unquote the argument. The quotes would only be required if you need to send the wildcards to a remote host.</div>
<div><br></div></div>..wayne..<br>