Rsync does almost everything cp does but since it is designed to network it never got that feature. I was thinking maybe --link-dest could be tortured into doing it but if it can I can't figure out how. BTW, you have some pointless dots in there.
On 9/4/21 6:41 PM, L A Walsh via rsync wrote: > I noticed in looking at download dirs for a project, that > another mirror had "crept-in" for usage (where different mirrors > are stored under mirror-URL names). To copy over the diffs, > normally I'd do: > rsync -uav dir1/. dir2/. > (where dir1="the new mirror that I'd switched > to by accident, and dir2=the original dir). > > The files were "smallish" so I just copied them, BUT I wass > wondering if there was an option similar to using 'cp' for > a dircopy, but instead of > cp -a dr1 dr2 > using: > cp -al dr1 dr2 > > to just hard-link over files from "dir1" to "dir2" (both > are on the same file system). > > I looked at (and tried) --link-dest=DIR > (hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged), but either I had the syntax > wrong, or didn't understand it as it didn't seem to do what I > wanted: cp'ing the new files in dir1 into the orig dir). > > Does rsync have an option to just "copy" over the new > files via a hardlink? > > Tnx! > > > > -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: https://sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., -- 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