Passing result of shuf to rsync

[hancooper]

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On Saturday, September 18, 2021 12:06 AM, Kevin Korb via rsync <rsync at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Not really sure what you are trying to accomplish here. Seems like it
> should work the way you have it. Note that many wonky rsync kludges are
> due to people not realizing that rsync can have multiple source
> arguments. Instead of the source simply being . it can be a list of
> stuff. Also, note that -a includes --recursive except when --files-from
> is in play.

I am trying send via rsync a shuffled list of files.


> On 9/17/21 7:11 PM, hancooper via rsync wrote:
>
> > I am trying to pass filename results that have been shuffled, then pass
> > the file to rsync.
> > Not quite sure whether to use --files-from=- or some other way.
> > shuf -n "$nf" -e ${dpath}/${incl} |
> >     rsync -av --update --files-from=- . "$dst"
>
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