is there a `newer' function

Dave Dykstra dwd at bell-labs.com
Wed May 1 14:59:02 EST 2002


On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 03:01:59AM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Hope I haven't just blindly overlooked this in man rsync:
> 
> 1)
> Some way to run rsync with any of the usual command lines but only
> applicable to files newer than some stipulated date.(on the source)

No, there's no option to do that.

> 2)
> Some tricky way to redirect where the transferred files go.
> Example:
> rsync -avv source  target  real_destination
> 
> Where all rsync computations are done comparing files in source to
> files in target, but the transfer actually goes to real_destination
> 
> Maybe even deliver to both target and real_destination

If you haven't found it yet, see --compare-dest.

- Dave Dykstra




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