[CentOS] rsync arg list to long

Brian Mathis
2007-08-30T16:02:33Z

On 8/30/07, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>
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?
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry

I would use find and xargs.  That's usually how I get around it.
You'll have to experiment though.  Something like:
    find ./ -type f | xargs scp .....
That's not a fully functional command!