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
> Add whatever the OSX specific option is (I think -E)
>>
>> Yes, --dry-run shows you what it would have done without --dry-run and
>> yes, if you can't read all the files then you need to run it as root.
>>
>> On 02/22/2017 08:57 AM, David Epstein wrote:
>>&g
All the files and directories I want to talk about are on the same machine (a
Mac). I have a directory that I will call SOURCE. This contains a a number of
files, some of which are directories containing further files. I want to copy
these files to another directory, which I will call TARGET.
