[Bug-tar] Re: feature request: make --rsh more flexible.

[Matt McCutchen]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 19:55 -0600, Nathan wrote:
> [...]  I convince rsync to meet all these goals by passing the option
> "--rsh='ssh -i ~snapshot/.ssh/snapshot_key_without_password.secret -u
> snapshot'".  When rsync runs I assume it appends whatever the remote
> command is to this option value.

Can't you just write a shell script "myssh" that says "ssh -i
~snapshot/.ssh/snapshot_key_without_password.secret -u snapshot" and
pass "--rsh=myssh" to tar?

Neverless, I agree with making `--rsh' more flexible.

-- 
Matt

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