Anton Aylward wrote:
David C. Rankin said the following on 01/08/2009 12:02 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Erik Jakobsen said the following on 01/08/2009 11:11 AM:
Many thanks for the replies to my query. Not that I understand much of it, but I will study the man page, and hope I get more insight. Isn't there an O'reilly book or page on it?
No book needed.
In konqueror just enter #rsync or from the cli, just do rsync --help or man rsync. The man page is really quite good.
There's a reason people buy the O'Reilly books: they add value. They give real world examples and discuss the 'why' and talk about the pitfalls.
Us more experienced (or more willing to spend time etc experimenting) types know the 'culture' and assumptions that go into many of the man pages and subsystems, but one can't assume that to be a universal. Much of the O'Reilly texts show those variations and extend the examples. As I said "they add value". That *you* don't need them, that *you* have time to experiment - and that means learning from failures, often catastrophic ones! - doesn't mean everyone else is so well off. Some of us need specific fixes to specific problems.
I look back over the time when I had the freedom(s) needed to learn by making mistakes, and boy did I make them! I'm very glad of that, but I have to face the fact that new stuff comes by and not all man pages are clear and comprehensive. On top of that I have to deal with people form the MS-Windows and and MAC world who don't have the cultural backgrounds to make sense of comments like "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish" or why might use single quotes rather than double quotes in a shell script (since they didn't grow up with scripting in the first place!) or write ${VARIABLE} instead of $VARIABLE ...
And having recently moved from RH/Mandriva to openSUSE, there are a lot of openSUSE "assumptions" that are catching me out.
The only reason I pointed it out is that some man pages really suck, but as a pleasant surprise, the rsync page is quite good. I guess I should have also references the samba site at samba.org with links to the rsync site rsync.org for completeness. Yes books help, but rsync is really simple and a google of 'rsync examples' turn up thousands of great examples. But by all means, if you still want a book, get it. I wouldn't replace a number of the O'Reilly's books I have for a web search for any price (within reason). -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org