Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Saturday, 2008-10-18 at 19:19 +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
>
> > To test how far you will come down is size before downloading anything,
> > rsync has the dryrun parameter.
>
> Ah, didn't know that, thankyou. I'll try doing some tests.

The correct parameter is --dry-run or -n.
You need to create the upmost destination directory by hand before using 
it; --dry-run really does run "dry", without changing anything locally.


Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)

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