Commit 039faa86 authored by Andrew Tridgell's avatar Andrew Tridgell

- document the rsync:// URL format

parent f7632fc6
......@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ rsync [options] [user@]host::module[/path] path
rsync [options] path [user@]host::module[/path]
rsync [options] rsync://host/module/path path
manpagedescription()
rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that rcp does,
......@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ itemize(
manpagesection(GENERAL)
There are five different ways of using rsync. They are:
There are six different ways of using rsync. They are:
itemize(
it() for copying local files. This is invoked when neither
......@@ -57,11 +59,16 @@ itemize(
it() for copying from a remote rsync server to the local
machine. This is invoked when the source path contains a ::
separator.
separator. You can also use a rsync:// URL if no username
is required.
it() for copying from the local machine to a remote rsync
server. This is invoked when the destination path contains a ::
separator.
it() for listing files on a remote machine. This is done the
same way as rsync transfers except that you leave off the
local destination.
)
Note that in all cases at least one of the source and destination
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