specify rsync location

If rsync fails with the following error,

$ /usr/bin/rsync -prltvzD user@machine.com:~/file.csv . -n
rsync: Command not found.
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(601) [Receiver=3.0.7]

the problem could be due to the non-standard location of rsync on the remote machine. For example, in this case, rsync was installed at /usr/local/bin/rsync on the remote machine. This location can be specified by using the "rsync-path" option. The following command succeeds.

$ /usr/bin/rsync -prltvzD --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync user@machine.com:~/file.csv . -n
receiving file list ... done

sent 20 bytes  received 58 bytes  3.47 bytes/sec
total size is 11473183  speedup is 147092.09 (DRY RUN)