rsync of STDIN to a file.

[Mark Young]

> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 12:09 +0000, Mark Young wrote:
> > I believe the rdiff man page is still not correct, even with your
> > submitted changes. It states "In every case where a filename must be
> > specified, - may be used instead to mean either standard input or
> > standard output as appropriate.".
> > 
> > I've not found that to be the case. For instance:
> > 
> > works:
> > $ rdiff signature r96.exe r96.sig
> > 
> > fails:
> > $ cat r96.exe | rdiff signature - r96.sig
> > rdiff: unknown option: -
> > Try `rdiff --help' for more information.
> 
> The next sentence of the man page says, "Be aware that if you do this,
> you’ll need to terminate your options with -- or rdiff will think you
> are passing it an empty option."  I'll agree that's a really dumb
> option-parsing behavior, but it is properly documented.  You can enter
> an upstream bug to have it changed if you like.
>
Hi Matt,
I'm sure you are right, but there are still older versions of the man page that don't show it. I'm not sure which is the most up to date:
This has your text: http://www.digipedia.pl/man/doc/view/rdiff.1.htmlThis one doesn't: http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdiff
The man page in the latest rdiff from cygwin, v0.9.7-2, doesn't have it.
Where is the homepage for rdiff?
Cheers,Mark
 		 	   		  
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