Tony Nelson wrote : At 8:12 PM -0700 10/5/07, Dean S. Messing wrote: : >I am trying to `rsync -e ssh' with a work machine "B" from my laptop : >at home. I only have direct access from home to work machine "A". : > : >For ordinary use of `ssh' and `scp' I use port forwarding via "A" to : >"B" from my laptop when I use it from home. Thus, in the background : >on my laptop (when I'm home), I have running: : >`ssh -N A.WorkDomain -L N:B:22' <snip> : >from home I want to do something like : > : >rysnc -p N -a -e ssh --delete localhost:/tmp/ /tmp/ : > : >The problem is that there doesn't appear to be any such "port flag" : >for rsync. Am I just missing the flag among the gajillion or so : >rsync flags? If not, how does one do this? : According to the rsync man page, something like: : : rsync -a -e "ssh -p N" --delete localhost:/tmp/ /tmp/ How obvious! (I was looking for an rsync port flag.) Thanks Tony. Dean