rsync {options} -- {arguments}

Atom Smasher atom at smasher.org
Sun Mar 18 05:27:44 GMT 2007


FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
rsync-2.6.9

from the man page: rsync uses the GNU long options package.

rsync seems to ignore the [gnu] special "--" option, used to delimit 
options from arguments. i'd like to have this functionality... any 
suggestions?

thanks...


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