The syntax for requesting multiple files from a remote host is
done by specifying additional remote-host args in the same style
as the first, or with the hostname omitted. For instance, all
these work:
rsync -av host:file1 :file2 host:file{3,4} /dest/
rsync -av host::modname/file{1,2} host::modname/file3 /dest/
rsync -av host::modname/file1 ::modname/file{3,4}
Older versions of rsync required using quoted spaces in the SRC,
like these examples:
rsync -av host:'dir1/file1 dir2/file2' /dest
rsync host::'modname/dir1/file1 modname/dir2/file2' /dest
This word-splitting still works (by default) in the latest rsync,
but is not as easy to use as the first method.
If you need to transfer a filename that contains whitespace, you
can either specify the --protect-args (-s) option, or you'll need
to escape the whitespace in a way that the remote shell will
understand. For instance:
rsync -av host:'file\ name\ with\ spaces' /dest
