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Bleakley
Bleakley

Reputation: 733

rsync functions in .bashrc not working in shell

I have the following functions in my .bashrc file:

# functions
    # rsync transfer for DAMS uploads
function rsyncDAMS () {
    rsync -avvPhi --no-p
}
export -f rsyncDAMS

    # general rsync transfer
function rsyncT () {
    rsync -avvPhi
}
export -f rsyncT

    # general rsync transfer with deletion of source files
function rsyncD () {
    rsync -avvPhi --remove-source-files
}
export -f rsyncD

but either of the three I run just brings up the rsync help page. I used to have them as aliases and everything worked fine. I wanted to make them functions in .bashrc so I could use some of the advantages inherent in that. But, I am unclear why this is not working.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 380

Answers (1)

Jakuje
Jakuje

Reputation: 26016

You need to pass the argument to rsync. It can be done using something like this:

function rsyncDAMS () {
    rsync -avvPhi --no-p "$@"
}

Upvotes: 1

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