[lug] rsync issue

[Chip Atkinson]

Pine ftw! :-)

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Tommaso Curto wrote:

> 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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