Just delete extraneous files, without updating other changes?

[Bryan Pliatsios]

Kevin,
  thanks so much, I should have read the man page closer:


--existing, --ignore-non-existing
This tells rsync to skip creating files (including directories) that do not exist yet on the destination. If this option is combined with the --ignore-existing option, no files will be updated (which can be useful if all you want to do is delete extraneous files).


   I'm really embarrased. Thanks for not rtfm-ing me.

  Bryan


On 17/02/2012, at 12:57 PM, Kevin Korb wrote:

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> Actually, you want --delete --ignore-non-existing and --ignore-existing
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> On 02/16/12 20:55, Kevin Korb wrote:
>> You want --ignore-existing
>> 
>> On 02/16/12 20:36, Bryan Pliatsios wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>> 
>>> I thought --recursive  and  --delete-before  might be an option
>>> and I can quit rsync when it begins the updates, but the
>>> incremental recursive scanning is disabled and this will
>>> certainly crash rsync as it was before moving to v3.x (too many
>>> files).
>> 
>>> I have no experience with --write-batch but I wonder if it's 
>>> safe/sane to edit the resulting batch output file, or by doing a 
>>> --dry-run | grep "deleting" and fire that list thru rm. Other 
>>> thoughts?
>> 
>> 
>>> Bryan
>> 
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