I just thought of something the only thing different about the two is the
last digit. say xyz1 and xyz2. Could I do something like '

  rsync -aHv <user1>@<address1>:/home/xyz*/ /home/xy*
<user2>@address2>/home/xyz*

??????????????????????????????????


On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> boy am I lucky.... I didn't run out of room. okay.... I need to rsync two
> /home directories.  The thing is the two directories are named differently
> at the top. one is /home/x and one is /home/y I want everything under  x to
> look like y. I looked in the man page and I thought I found something but
> then I looked on and couldn't find it again to investigate further. I
> thought it was in the 'running as a daemon' section but I couldn't find it
> again.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 4:18 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com <
> kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>
>> how would I rsync just what has been modified?
>>>
>>
>> If I interpret this question as:
>> 'how would rsync know just what has been modified?'
>> The answer is: it depends.
>> rsync will compare timestamps unless you use the --checksum option.
>> RTFM...
>> If I interpret this question as:
>> 'how would I know just what rsync has updated?'
>> You don't, you trust rsync.
>> I you don't trust rsync (I don't), you can run it twice with the
>> --checksum option (I do) or you can:
>> ssh user@box 'cd my-path;find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;|sort' >
>> /tmp/remote.md5
>> cd my-path;find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \;|sort > /tmp/local.md5
>> sdiff -s /tmp/remote.md5 /tmp/local.md5
>> Ang get your banana...   :)
>> Good luck...
>> ET
>> PS: Free advice, you can't sue me...   :)
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Havens writes:
>>
>>> thanks. this is  takling a long time..... how would I rsync just what has
>>> been modified?
>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Nathan England <nathan@nmecs.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> **
>>>>
>>>> You need to use rsync
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> rsync -av /path/to/localfile user@remotehost:/path/to/**remotefile
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> or alternatively
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> rsync -av user@remotehost:/path/to/**remotefile /path/to/localfile
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, April 27, 2012 13:46:40 Michael Havens wrote:
>>>> thanks for the quick responses.... what I meant is like to have
>>>> duplicate
>>>> files on two systems and then make the files the same.
>>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Carruth, Rusty <
>>>> Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.**com <Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Fast answer:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ssh me@foosystem ‘cat the_Remote_file’ >> localfile
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Explanation:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>                On system ‘foosystem’ (as me), cat the file.  On this
>>>> system, append that stream of bytes to ‘localfile’.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Should you want to ‘tail –f’ the file on ‘foosystem’, change ‘cat’ to
>>>> ‘tail –f’.  (Or grep, or …)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rusty
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.**plug.phoenix.az.us<plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>[mailto:
>>>> plug-discuss-bounces@lists.**plug.phoenix.az.us<plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>]
>>>> On Behalf Of Michael Havens
>>>> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:05 PM
>>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list
>>>> Subject: merge documents with scp
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> is there a way to tell scp to add any appended text to an existing
>>>> document? (that's called 'merge', right?)
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>>>>
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