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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:24:07AM -0500, mjinks@xxxxxxxx.xxx said:
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> In case it isn't obvious -- and it apparently wasn't to Sun -- I refer
> to the fact that you can't use SunOS find(1) to feed a pathname
> containing a space (legal as sea salt in UFS since heck was a pup!) to
> the stdin of SunOS cpio(1). For that, you have to use GNU find(1), with
> a GNU-find(1)-specific option at that, and also GNU cpio(1). Or
> preprocess that input somehow (How? I dunno, I gave up and punted). Or
> give up and punt like I did when you find, er, discover that someone who
> came before was kind enough to equip the system with rsync(1).
xargs doesn't DTRT? (of course, I dunno if that ships with SunOS or not ...)
> Ah, rsync(1). I find so little to hate about rsync(1). Somebody help
> me out here, quick. And no, guilt by association with Samba does not
> count, though it's a helluva nice try.
rsync is great, especially in conjuction with "-e 'ssh -c blowfish'" ...
until you try to sync large filesystems (or rather, large directory trees).
Then, rsync will sit there chugging along doing nothing for a while until
it's produced a lovely core dump (they can be nice and large if your
directory tree is particularly deep). Ugh.
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Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net
illum oportet crescere me autem minui
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