rsync urls and ssh (was Re: URL style syntax in destination?)

[Martin Pool]

On  6 Feb 2002, Dave Dykstra <dwd at bell-labs.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:09:22PM -0500, Alberto Accomazzi wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [path] & module options with SSH 

> > I, for one, always stick to the rsync://host/module syntax when pulling from
> > an rsync server, and have often wished that the same syntax were available 
> > when doing a push.  I find the URL-style syntax easy to remember and understand,
> > while the "::" seems much less intuitive (it actually looks perlish to me
> > because of the way modules are specified in perl).

rsync:// urls seem to work fine for uploads, assuming of course that
you are allowed to write to the destination.  For example:

  $ rsync /tmp/Downstream_Liability.pdf localhost::transfer/

-- 
Martin