using rsync to get filestats
Matt McCutchen
matt at mattmccutchen.net
Sun Oct 19 01:00:59 GMT 2008
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 20:55 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> Thanks Matt. I suppose I could use rsync to know how big a directory
> is then...right?
>
> rsync --progress -avzL -n /source /foo
>
> That should give me the total number of bytes to transfer
That will work, but --progress seems to be pointless on a dry run, and
you might like to pass --stats to get some additional information.
Matt
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