Passing result of shuf to rsync

[Kevin Korb]

Well, what you have should function.  But rsync is going to sort the list.

On 9/17/21 8:26 PM, hancooper wrote:
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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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