Problem with many files in rsync server directory ?

[Carson Gaspar]

--On Wednesday, January 07, 2004 03:10:23 -0800 jw schultz <jw at pegasys.ws> 
wrote:

> I've lost track of the number of times someone has
> complained on this list because blah/blah/* didn't behave as
> he expected and the problem went away when he dropped the
> unnecessary wildcard.

Hmmm... given the following files:

foo/a
foo/b
foo/c/1

how do you do "rsync foo/* bar" without globs? Note that this is _not_ 
recursive. All I can think of is to replace the glob with an exclude, doing 
"rsync -r --exclude='*/*' foo/ bar/", which is an absolutely terrible 
construct (please recurse - whoops, just kidding!).

Hmmm... using bash, you can do "rsync --files-from=<(find foo/. -maxdepth 1 
! -type d -printf '%P\n') foo bar/", but that's also wretched.

-- 
Carson