[lug] rsync issue

[Tommaso Curto]

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On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Chip Atkinson <chip at pupman.com> wrote:
> 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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