Bug 8834 - Option --recursive fails if followed by another option
Summary: Option --recursive fails if followed by another option
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: rsync
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.9
Hardware: All Other
: P5 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wayne Davison
QA Contact: Rsync QA Contact
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Reported: 2012-03-31 02:09 UTC by Axel Boldt
Modified: 2012-03-31 03:48 UTC (History)
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Description Axel Boldt 2012-03-31 02:09:29 UTC
I am using rsync 3.0.9 protocol version 30 from the cygwin package rsync-3.0.9-1 under Windows 7.

$ cd /tmp
$ mkdir c d
$ rsync --recursive –-verbose c d
rsync: link_stat "/tmp/–-verbose" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at /home/lapo/package/rsync-3.0.9-1/src/rsync-3.0.9/main.c(1052) [sender=3.0.9]
$ rsync --verbose --recursive c d
sending incremental file list

sent 32 bytes  received 13 bytes  90.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00


Obviously "--verbose" is interpreted as a file name in the first example. If this is intended, then this behavior needs to be documented on the man page. If this is a compile mistake on cygwin's part, I'll be happy to report it there.
Comment 1 Kevin Korb 2012-03-31 02:34:31 UTC
Please verify that you actually used --verbose.  One of the dashes in your post is not a dash character.  This may have been a paste error but it seems likely to be the problem.
Comment 2 Axel Boldt 2012-03-31 03:48:02 UTC
You are correct, mistake on my part: retyping the two dashes resolves the issue.