[lug] rsync issue

[Tommaso Curto]

Yes, that was it! Thank you for your help!

Tommaso

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Chip Atkinson <chip at pupman.com> wrote:

> Could it be that you have non-ascii hyphens in there?  When I see the
> arguments in my text-only email reader I see
>
> rsync ?arR ?files=from...
>
> which makes me think that you are not actually using ascii 45 (0x2D), or
> the - character to start your args.
>
> Chip
>
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Tommaso Curto wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>> sorry, the $ is just a typo. I am running the following and getting the
>> error:
>> rsync ?arR ?files-from=my_files.tmp user at 1.2.3.4:/aaa/bbb/ /what/ever/
>>
>> Tommaso
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Adam McFarren <amcfarre at gmail.com> wrote:
>>       Tommaso,
>>
>>       What's with the "$" in your user at host section?
>>
>>       I did a mini-test here and using --from-files worked okay with the
>>       remote source and local destination.
>>
>>       -adam
>>
>>       On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Tommaso Curto <
>> tommaso.curto at gmail.com>
>>       wrote:
>>       > Hello BLUG,
>>       >
>>       > I am trying to issue the following rsync command with no success:
>>       > rsync ?arR ?files-from=my_files.tmp user@$1.2.3.4:/aaa/bbb/
>> /what/ever/
>>       >
>>       > and I get this error:
>>       > Unexpected remote arg: user@$1.2.3.4:/aaa/bbb/ /what/ever/
>>       > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1348)
>>       [sender=3.1.1]
>>       >
>>       > I've been trying to find the correct syntax to make this work,
>> with
>>       no
>>       > success.
>>       > All I need is to run rsync (from my local machine) and grab the
>> files
>>       > specified in my_files.tmp (saved on my local machine) from the
>> remote
>>       > machine to my local machine.
>>       > All the examples I found are with my_files.tmp on the source
>> machine,
>>       but I
>>       > cannot do this in my specific case.
>>       >
>>       > What am I doing wrong? Any help or hint is appreciated :-)
>>       >
>>       > Thank you,
>>       > Tommaso
>>       >
>>       >
>>       >
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