similar file names..

[David Goodwin]

Hi all,

I've recently started using rsync, and would like to know if there is 
any way for it to realise that similarly named files are the same.

e.g. sendmail-8.12.2-i386-1.tgz and sendmail-8.12.2-i386-2.tgz

(the second one being an update on the first and replaces it, but it is 
going to be very similar)

I had a quick search on google, and found a few articles, namely :

http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/1998-August/000676.html

and

http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2000-June/002421.html

Has anything changed since then ?

thanks in advance,

David.

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