Hi, Hendrik Boom writes:
> 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? At the very least not particularly helpful. Just spent five minutes trying to get it do something halfway useful. No such luck. The -h output is not much better than the manual page :-( Sorry for wasting your time. > Or should I lodge a bug report against the man page? That might help, -- 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
