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> I believe that portage/emerge uses it, yes.

> I find rsync nicer for most of my needs than FTP or scp.

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> typically what I do is this, to push:

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> rsync -auv file1 file2 ... user@hostname:/path/to/where/i/want/it

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> or to pull:

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> rsync -auv user@hostname:/path/to/something .

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> It Just Works (tm).

> The only subtle gotcha I've found is that

> "rsync foo_directory ." does not mean the same thing as

> "rsync foo_directory/ ."

> ... this is explained clearly in the EXAMPLES section of the man page.

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> Also I generally put this in my /etc/profile:

> export RSYNC_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh

Paul,

   Thanks. I will save this email for future reference.
Cheers,

Mark