[GRLUG] Dumb rsync question

[L. V. Lammert]

At 03:45 PM 2/27/2013, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>OK, .. I'm trying to rsync a single file from a directory to a 
>remote host, .. IME I thought rsync used the entire argument as the 
>source, however it appears that rsync is separating the path from 
>the filename - i.e. the file gets transferred to the user root 
>directory, and the path gets stripped!

Yeah, really dumb <g>! rsync -R, .. rsync -K preserves symlinks on the target.

Sorry for the backscatter, but, then, things have been pretty quiet lately!

         Lee