Well, what you have should function. But rsync is going to sort the list.
On 9/17/21 8:26 PM, hancooper wrote:> ??????? Original Message ???????
> On Saturday, September 18, 2021 12:06 AM, Kevin Korb via rsync <rsync at
lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Not really sure what you are trying to accomplish here. Seems like it
>> should work the way you have it. Note that many wonky rsync kludges are
>> due to people not realizing that rsync can have multiple source
>> arguments. Instead of the source simply being . it can be a list of
>> stuff. Also, note that -a includes --recursive except when --files-from
>> is in play.
>
> I am trying send via rsync a shuffled list of files.
>
>
>> On 9/17/21 7:11 PM, hancooper via rsync wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to pass filename results that have been shuffled, then
pass
>>> the file to rsync.
>>> Not quite sure whether to use --files-from=- or some other way.
>>> shuf -n "$nf" -e ${dpath}/${incl} |
>>> ??? rsync -av --update --files-from=- . "$dst"
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