GNU shar utilities: 4.2 The remsync command and arguments

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## 4.2 The `remsync` command and arguments

At the shell prompt, calling the command `remsync` without any parameters initiates an interactive dialog, in which the user types commands and receives feedback from the program.

The command `remsync`, given at the shell prompt, may have arguments, in which case these arguments taken together form one `remsync` interactive command. However, ``--help'` and ``--version'` options are interpreted especially, with their usual effect in GNU. Once this command has been executed, no more commands are taken from the user and `remsync` terminates execution. This allows for using `remsync` in some kind of batch mode. It is unwise to redirect `remsync` standard input, because user interactions might often be needed in ways difficult to predict in advance.

The two most common usages of `remsync` are the commands:

    remsync b
    remsync p

The first example executes the `broadcast` command, which sends synchronization packages to all connected remote sites for the current local directory tree.

The second example executes the `process` command, which studies and complies with a synchronisation package saved in the current directory (not necessarily into the synchronized directory tree), under the usual file name ``remsync.tar.gz'`.

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