Either solution should work fine. Your dry run results should be the same.
-v and -i are only output modifying options they don't actually change
the way that rsync works. The extra string there is explained in the
--itemize-changes section of the man page but that particular one means
that the times tamp on the directory is different.
On 02/23/2017 01:07 PM, David Epstein wrote:
> This is looking good and very helpful to an rsync novice. I will try the
> modification
>
> rsync --dry-run -avi --delete --filter 'protect /*’ --filter ‘protect /.*’
> SOURCE/ TARGET/
>
> and see what it produces. I do have a number of directories and files
> beginning with a dot in TARGET and these need to be protected.
> Unfortunately, the output from —dry-run is still likely to be sufficiently
> extensive that looking over it won’t be a completely certain test.
>
> I therefore ask
> "Does the above modification seem right to the experts?”
>
> Two supplementary points, if I may. Do you advise -ai or -avi? And why do you
> prefer one over the other?
> I don’t understand the line of rsync output that reads
>
> .d..t...... ./
>
> David
>
>> On 23 Feb 2017, at 17:02, <francis.montag...@inria.fr>
>> <francis.montag...@inria.fr> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:07:16 -0500 Kevin Korb wrote:
>>
>>> I hate to say it because it goes against my normal advice but this is
>>> one instance where using a * in the source parameter would help...
>>
>> I totally agree.
>>
>> I thing that using a protect filter achieves this goal (without using
>> a * thus).
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> mkdir SOURCE/{a,b,c}
>> mkdir TARGET/d
>>
>> ## FAIL: delete d
>> rsync --dry-run -ai --delete SOURCE/ TARGET/
>> *deleting d/
>> .d..t...... ./
>> cd+++++++++ a/
>> cd+++++++++ b/
>> cd+++++++++ c/
>>
>> ## OK: for this trivial test
>> rsync --dry-run -ai --delete --filter 'protect /*' SOURCE/ TARGET/
>> .d..t...... ./
>> cd+++++++++ a/
>> cd+++++++++ b/
>> cd+++++++++ c/
>>
>> You may need to read carefully the FILTER RULES section of the rsync
>> manual. I didn't count the number of time I read it :-)
>>
>> ---
>> Francis
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