--ignore-exisiting criteria?

Matt McCutchen matt at mattmccutchen.net
Wed Jul 28 23:46:27 MDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 22:24 -0700, Frank Jaccarino wrote:
> Forgive the noob question.  When you say at the corresponding path, that
> would mean name, correct?

Yes.  The same name within the corresponding directory, which has the
same name within its parent, and so forth.

-- 
Matt

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Matt McCutchen <matt at mattmccutchen.net>wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 10:16 -0700, fjaccarino wrote:
> > > I've been hunting on the web but I can't seem to find what the definition
> > > that is used when using the "--ignore-existing" option of RSYNC.  Would
> > > anyone happen to know what exactly is the criteria used to ignore files?
> >  Is
> > > it name only?  Size?  Name and size?
> >
> > The criterion is that something already exists at the corresponding path
> > in the destination; it doesn't matter what.
> >
> > --
> > Matt



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