On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 06:05:39PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hendrik Boom writes: > > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 12:39:11PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > >> Is there a reason not to use `rsync -n` ? > > > > Ahhh... That's what -n is for. I missed it looking through the man page. > > And if you want to see the differences, you may be interested in rdiff. > Haven't used it myself but sound (and looks) like it fits your bill.
That's just what I thought... but the man page I have for rdiff says nothing about how to compare files between systems... Could it be that the man page s defective? It does say 'similar to rsync', and mentions that 'he original rsync algorithm was discovered by Andrew Tridgell.' but that's hardly a specification. Was I just too tired to figure out these clues? Should I have experimented with rdiff pretending it took the same parameters and syntax as rsync? Or should I lodge a bug report against the man page? -- hendrik > > Hope this helps, > -- > Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 > GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 > Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate > Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
