Newbie: What does -e do?

Eberhard Moenkeberg
Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:37:28 -0000

Hi,

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Jeffrey Ellis wrote:

> Just starting out, and have read through the man and several web page
> tutorials, and I don?t quite understand some of the options (guess I?ll ask
> about those as I get to them).
>
> The first I see pretty often is ?e. Can someone explain what this does?

lxi001:26 01:06:14 ~ # man rsync | grep "\-e, "
         -e, --rsh=COMMAND           specify the remote shell
lxi001:26 01:06:26 ~ #

Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)