[CentOS] rsync arg list to long

Jerry Geis
2007-08-30T15:29:54Z

>On 8/30/07, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com
<http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote:
>>/ I am trying to do an rsync or scp from machine1 to machine2.
/>>/ I am getting arg list to long.
/>>/
/>>/ I am using centos 5 machine 1 and centos 4.5 on machine2.
/>>/
/>>/ I am using the default shell which is bash.
/>>/
/>>/ How can I get past this?
/
>Change your rsync command around a bit.

>(If you can show us the command you're using, we can make some
suggestions)

>I would gather that you have a huge amount of files in the dir you're
syncing.


I was trying to do "rsync -a root at machine2:/somedirectory ."

There are multiple directories under the tree and yes many files.

also tried "scp -r root at machine2:/somedirectory ." with the same
result of too many files.

Jerry