transferring individual files question, pull vs. push

[Jeff Field]

Here's the answer...works like a charm!  Thanks!

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Eakin [mailto:Leakin at dfw.Nostrum.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:22 PM
> To: Jeff Field
> Cc: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: transferring individual files question, pull vs. push
>
>
> Try quoting the file list like this:
> rsync -e ssh source-box.xxxxx.com:'/var/qmail/control/file1 \
> /var/qmail/control/file2 \
> /var/qmail/control/file3 \
> /var/qmail/control/file4' \
> /var/qmail/control
>
> Your shell on the remote system will split out the multiple names, but
> locally it is part of the single "source" argument.
>   -Lee
>
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> > From: "Jeff Field" <jfield at aaaq.com>
> > To: <rsync at lists.samba.org>
> > Subject: transferring individual files question, pull vs. push
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> > Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:55:39 -0600
> >
> > Can't seem to find the answer anywhere...
> >
> > I'm currently using an rsync script on the source box to transfer some
> > individual files to the destination box...all works well.  The script:
> >
> > rsync -e ssh \
> > /var/qmail/control/file1 \
> > /var/qmail/control/file2 \
> > /var/qmail/control/file3 \
> > /var/qmail/control/file4 \
> > destination-box.xxxxx.com:/var/qmail/control
> >
> > Now, instead of "pushing" the files from the source box to the
> destination
> > box, I'd like to run a script on the destination box to "pull" the files
> > over from the source box.  So far, I can get one file to come
> over by doing:
> >
> > rsync -e ssh source-box.xxxxx.com:/var/qmail/control/file1
> > /var/qmail/control
> >
> > however, I can't get *all* the individual files to come over with one
> > command, as I can with the first script.  I've tried to
> basically reverse
> > the first script (and a few variations), like:
> >
> > rsync -e ssh source-box.xxxxx.com:/var/qmail/control/file1 \
> > source-box.xxxxx.com:/var/qmail/control/file2 \
> > source-box.xxxxx.com:/var/qmail/control/file3 \
> > source-box.xxxxx.com:/var/qmail/control/file4 \
> > /var/qmail/control
> >
> > but I just can't get it to work nor can I find any good
> documentation for
> > what I want to do.  Any ideas, anyone?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
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