[RFC] transfer files listed in a file.

[jw schultz]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:49:51PM -0500, James A. Morrison wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  We've found a need to list the files to transfer in a files since
> our command lines got too long.  Anyway,  the attached patch
> implements reading from a file with two command line options.
> 
>  The first is from-file, this file contains a list of files to get
> from src.  The second is subst-file which contains a list of files
> to send to dst.
> 
> e.g.
> rsync -f rsync.files jim at server::jim/ .
> 
> and
> 
> rsync -s rsync.files jim at server::jim
> 
>  The first will grab the files listed in rsync.files from
> server::jim and put them in '.' .  The second will send the
> files listed in rsync.files to server::jim . 

see the --files-from option in CVS

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