How to force checksum in dry-run

[Kevin Korb]

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It will work but why not just use diff -r ?  Or a dedicated file
validation utility like cfv?

Rsync isn't even smart enough to not bother checksumming things that
don't even have a comparison file.

On 12/20/2014 09:42 PM, eightfold ? wrote:
> I want to use rsync to diff two folders (with checksum) by using
> dry-run and itemize changes like this: rsync -rni --checksum /dir1/
> /dir2/> ~/Desktop/diff.log
> 
> However, I read that in --dry-run rsync wont do checksums. Is this
> true? If it is, is there a way to force checksums i dry-run mode? 
> 

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