[lug] rsync issue

[Adam McFarren]

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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