filelist calculation algoritm

[Lorenzo Bettini]

jw schultz wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 07:15:27PM +0100, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> 
>>Aaron Morris wrote:
>>
>>>You did not specifically mention it:  compression (-z) would probably 
>>>help more than anything.  Otherwise, you could do something like:
>>>
>>>Have a file (ie filelist.txt) that contains the filename (with relative 
>>>paths), one file per line.
>>>
>>>rsync -rRWz `cat filelist.txt` user at hostname::module
>>>
>>
>>as I understand this works only when connecting to a rsync daemon... 
>>what if I wanted to use ssh as a shell?
> 
> 
> Compression works fine over ssh.  Don't know where you got
> the impression it doesn't given what is in the manpage.
> 

I did not refer to compression: I was wondering if there's a way for 
updating only a list of files with the `cat` trick...

Lorenzo

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