We're probably splitting hairs, but I meant any number of files regardless of the shell input length restriction. When you don't use --files-from or similar, your rsync command will exceed the max input length with e.g. 32000 files or patterns.
Well, to be splitting it, we both have to see what we're splitting. The limit completely evaded me as I have never hit it and I have done some REALLY BIG rsync pulls and pushes from server to server. I guess if I tried to do
rsync -uav /usr box2:/big/backup
I might have had more of a feel for what you are saying.
nah, that wouldn't do it, that command line has only one [relevant] token. however, rsync -uav /var/spool/cache/squid/*/*/* box2:/squid/backup That's gonna do it! /var/spool/cache/squid/*/*/* will be expanded out to produce many, many tokens... Phil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org