--include-from=FILE read include patterns from FILE
--files-from=FILE read list of source-file names from FILE
-0, --from0 all *from/filter files are delimited by 0s
+ -s, --protect-args no space-splitting; wildcard chars only
--address=ADDRESS bind address for outgoing socket to daemon
--port=PORT specify double-colon alternate port number
--sockopts=OPTIONS specify custom TCP options
than using bf(--delete-after).
Incremental recursion can be disabled using the bf(--no-inc-recursive)
-option or its shorter bf(--no-ir) alias.
+option or its shorter bf(--no-i-r) alias.
dit(bf(-R, --relative)) Use relative paths. This means that the full path
names specified on the command line are sent to the server rather than
If incremental recursion is active (see bf(--recursive)), rsync may transfer
a missing hard-linked file before it finds that another link for the file
-exists elsewhere in the hierarchy. One way to avoid this is to disable
-incremental recursion using the bf(--no-ir) option.
+exists elsewhere in the hierarchy. This does not affect the accuracy of
+the transfer, just its efficiency. One way to avoid this is to disable
+incremental recursion using the bf(--no-inc-recursive) option.
dit(bf(-p, --perms)) This option causes the receiving rsync to set the
destination permissions to be the same as the source permissions. (See
It does not affect bf(--cvs-exclude) (since all names read from a .cvsignore
file are split on whitespace).
+If the bf(--iconv) and bf(--protect-args) options are specified and the
+bf(--files-from) filenames are being sent from one host to another, the
+filenames will be translated from the sending host's charset to the
+receiving host's charset.
+
+dit(bf(-s, --protect-args)) This option sends all filenames and some options to
+the remote rsync without allowing the remote shell to interpret them. This
+means that spaces are not split in names, and any non-wildcard special
+characters are not translated (such as ~, $, ;, &, etc.). Wildcards are
+expanded on the remote host by rsync (instead of the shell doing it).
+
+If you use this option with bf(--iconv), the args will also be translated
+from the local to the remote character set. The translation happens before
+wild-cards are expanded. See also the bf(--files-from) option.
+
dit(bf(-T, --temp-dir=DIR)) This option instructs rsync to use DIR as a
scratch directory when creating temporary copies of the files transferred
on the receiving side. The default behavior is to create each temporary
The default setting of this option is site-specific, and can also be
affected via the RSYNC_ICONV environment variable.
+If you specify the bf(--protect-args) option (bf(-s)), rsync will translate
+the filenames you specify on the command-line that are being sent to the
+remote host. See also the bf(--files-from) option.
+
Note that rsync does not do any conversion of names in filter files
-(including include/exclude files), in a files-from file, nor those
-specified on the command line. It is up to you to ensure that you're
-requesting the right names from a remote server, and you can specify
-extra include/exclude rules if there are filename differences on the
-two sides that need to be accounted for. (In the future there may be
-a way to specify a UTF-8 filter rule that gets auto-converted to the
-local side's character set.)
+(including include/exclude files). It is up to you to ensure that you're
+specifying matching rules that can match on both sides of the transfer.
+For instance, you can specify extra include/exclude rules if there are
+filename differences on the two sides that need to be accounted for.
dit(bf(-4, --ipv4) or bf(-6, --ipv6)) Tells rsync to prefer IPv4/IPv6
when creating sockets. This only affects sockets that rsync has direct
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