Checking of the existence of a remote file
Otto Wyss
otto.wyss at bluewin.ch
Tue Apr 9 14:06:01 EST 2002
In a Perl script I download files with rsync. But when a none existent file from
the remote server is requested, rsync prints error messages if not -q is used.
So I'd rather like to check the existence first (quiet) and then download it
(verbose). Is it possible to check with the following command:
system ("rsync -nq $file");
if (($? >> 8) == 0) {system ("rsync -aPv $file ...")};
O. Wyss
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Author of "Debian partial mirror synch script"
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