How to figure out what subdirectories are available on an rsync server?

Kevin Korb kmk at sanitarium.net
Sat Feb 21 15:57:11 MST 2015


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rsync cran.r-project.org::CRAN will show the listing.

On 02/21/2015 05:54 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/mirror-howto.html
> 
> The above webpage shows the following rsync command to sync the
> website.
> 
> rsync -rtlzv --delete cran.r-project.org::CRAN /dir/on/local/disc
> 
> But if I want to sync only a subdirectory of what are available in 
> ftp://cran.r-project.org/pub/R/, does anybody know how to do it?
> 
> Where is "CRAN" from (I don't see "CRAN" in the ftp site)? Is there
> a way to check the directory structure of a rsync server? Thanks.
> 

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