LUCI Topic-rsync , was Re: Distros

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

I have a feeling that this could be an interesting topic for a 
demonstration. 

eks

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> To get this post somewhat back on topic, here's a little tip for those
> of you not familiar with rsync.  You can get a list of modules
> available on a rsync server with this:
> 
>     rsync -n rsync://ftp.luci.org/
> 
> Technically, if you leave off the local target, the -n isn't
> necessary.
> 
> You can get a directory listing of a single directory by adding the
> module and path to the rsync command above.  For example, to do the
> equivalent of "ls /pub" in ftp, you'd use this:
> 
>     rsync -n rsync://ftp.luci.org/ftp/pub/
> 
> Just add -r to get a recursive directory listing.  (But please don't
> do it in that directory.)
> 
> To download all of the Red Hat 8.0 ISO images to the current
> directory, you'd want a command like this:
> 
>     rsync -avP rsync://ftp.luci.org/redhat/linux/8.0/en/iso/i386/. .
> 
> Adding "--exclude '*[45]*'" will exclude the two source-only CDs.
> 
> Steve
> 

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