bad behaviour of "dry run" -n option

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Fri Apr 23 07:58:12 GMT 2004


On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:40:07PM +0400, Denis Lagno wrote:
> rsync --delete -anvc /dir1 /dir2
> 
> It is natural to expect to see printed out all files that would be
> updated including files that would be deleted.  But such invocation
> do not print files that would be deleted.

I can't reproduce this -- rsync always reports the files that would
be deleted.  If you're still seeing a problem, please provide a more
detailed test case.

..wayne..


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