--link-dest behavior

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Sat Oct 4 23:18:56 GMT 2008


On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 18:41 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote:
> > Note (if you haven't already) that you can do the "cp" in the
> > --rsync-path rather than in a separate ssh session.
> 
> Thanks for the tip, Matt, but this does not appear to be working for me.
> 
> I've tried rsyncing to various places with
> --rsync-path="touch ME; rsync"
> --rsync-path="touch ME && rsync"
> --rsync-path="rsync; touch ME"
> --rsync-path="rsync && touch ME"
> 
> ME is never anywhere to be found.

ME should be in the home directory of the account that you're ssh-ing
into.  It isn't?

Matt



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