The output of --list-only isn't as I expected as regards symlinks. Here
are my test files:
$ ls ./src
-rw------- 1 michael michael 0 2018-09-05 09:18:15 file
lrwxrwxrwx 1 michael michael 4 2018-09-05 09:18:28 near_symlink -> file
lrwxrwxrwx 1 michael michael 23 2018-09-05 09:19:05 far_symlink ->
/home/michael/Documents
The "destination" dir is empty:
$ ls ./dest
drwxr-xr-x 31 michael michael 4.0K 2018-09-12 09:46:06 ..
drwx------ 2 michael michael 4.0K 2018-09-12 09:50:20 .
I want to know which files are candidates to transfer. I don't want
symlinks to transfer. So I run it with --list-only :
$ rsync -r --no-links --list-only ./src/ ./dest
drwx------ 4,096 2018/09/06 09:39:16 .
lrwxrwxrwx 23 2018/09/05 09:19:05 far_symlink
-rw------- 0 2018/09/05 09:18:15 file
lrwxrwxrwx 4 2018/09/05 09:18:28 near_symlink
This seems to indicate the symlinks are expected to transfer. But if I
actually run the transfer by removing --list-only ...
$ rsync -r --no-links ./src/ ./dest
skipping non-regular file "far_symlink"
skipping non-regular file "near_symlink"
It does not transfer the symlinks and this is confirmed by the contents
of dest:
$ ls ./dest
drwxr-xr-x 31 michael michael 4.0K 2018-09-12 09:46:06 ..
-rw------- 1 michael michael 0 2018-09-12 09:57:50 file
drwx------ 2 michael michael 4.0K 2018-09-12 09:57:50 .
So it seems like --list-only isn't being truthful as it surely knows
beforehand the symlinks will not be transferred regardless of the
condition of dest.
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Michael Hipp
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