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Generally most excellent software, but this is hateful:

$ rsync -ve ssh plum:tmp/other ~/tmp/other
skipping non-regular file "/Users/nick/tmp/other"

wrote 16 bytes  read 40 bytes  37.33 bytes/sec
total size is 4  speedup is 0.07
$ ls -l ~/tmp/other
ls: /Users/nick/tmp/other: No such file or directory
$ touch ~/tmp/other
$ rsync -ve ssh plum:tmp/other ~/tmp/other
skipping non-regular file "/Users/nick/tmp/other"

wrote 16 bytes  read 40 bytes  37.33 bytes/sec
total size is 4  speedup is 0.07
$ ls -l ~/tmp/other
-rw-r--r--  1 nick  nick  0 22 Apr 11:22 /Users/nick/tmp/other


W.T.F. ????


Finally, over on plum, I find the cause:

$ ls -l ~/tmp/other 
lrwxr-xr-x  1 nick  nick  4 Apr 22 11:22 /home/nick/tmp/other -> file


Argh. Report the right fucking file name. Go on. You know it would make sense.

(About to send a bug report. People who just spout about bugs somewhere
random and expect the developers to learn of them are hateful. But they're
not software...)

Nicholas Clark

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  • rsync Paul Mison 10:06 on 22 Apr 2004
  • Nicholas Clark 11:29 on 22 Apr 2005

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