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Rsync Specific Listed Files from specified Server Directory

I'd like to rsync specified files from a specific server folder to my local directory (in which I am running the command).

However, I'm getting the error failed: No such file or directory (2). There seems to be something wrong with my syntax and I'm not sure its picking up the source directory properly

This is my command...

rsync -az . remoteSite.com::remoteFolder/remoteSubFolder/ --files-from=filelist.txt

filelist.txt, which it seems to be finding, contains filenames within remoteSubFolder

file1.xml
file2.xml
etc

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

  • Thanks to @Gordon Davisson.

    I now understand that the full stop represents the local directory and goes after the remote host and directory.

    rsync -az --files-from=filelist.txt remoteSite.com::remoteFolder/remoteSubFolder/ .