On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:07:20 +0000 David Epstein wrote:
> I will try the modification > rsync --dry-run -avi --delete --filter 'protect /*’ --filter ‘protect /.*’ > SOURCE/ TARGET/ The 'protect /.*’ is useless: unlike the shell, rsync interprets * simply as a path component, regardless thus if it starts with a dot or not. From the man: a '*' matches any path component, but it stops at slashes. > Unfortunately, the output from —dry-run is still likely to be > sufficiently extensive that looking over it won’t be a completely > certain test. Then redirect to a file and grep deleting in this file. --- Francis -- 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