That was my initial thought as well, but looking at it, it seems like he really takes the time to _curate_ it: rsync --rsh='ssh -p 2020 -i ~/.ssh/host.pem'

That was my initial thought as well, but looking at it, it seems like he really takes the time to _curate_ it: rsync --rsh='ssh -p 2020 -i ~/.ssh/host.pem' --archive --human-readable --progress --verbose host:/path /target # network transfer In examples like the above, he appears to have sanitized things to be useful from the perspective of "How do I do X again?" -- very cool.