On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:13 +0700, Ryan Joseph wrote: > I'm making a GUI for rsync and having some problems getting a reliable > indication of the files that will be transferred (so I can make a > progress bar from the results). I didn't see rysnc offered this so my > plan has been to get a list of files that will be transferred and > count them as rsync reports them using the -v option thus getting a > ratio I could make a progress bar from.
> The problem is I don't see there is a way to have rsync tell me which > files will be transferred so I can count the list. Rsync determines which of the files in the file list need a data transfer as it goes, so the only way to get the count in advance is to do a separate dry run. Then you could take the "Number of files transferred" from --stats output. Alternatively, you could base the progress bar on the total number of entries in the file list. The --progress option does this, but it won't be accurate if incremental recursion is enabled. > I tried using the --list-only option to count the files first but I > can't get it to report the same number of files as are actually > transferred when I don't use the option. For example the same command > with --list-only is listing 8000 files and when I remove the command 0 > files are transferred (which is correct). Shouldn't the command using > --list-only report 0 files also as that's how many will be > transferred? No. --list-only lists all the source files and does not use the destination at all. I think it was originally intended for listing files on an rsync daemon. It can also be useful for testing. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html