Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 10:44 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> I should have been more specific in asking this. I am concerned with the >> possibility it will not go through directories. in the past I have had >> an empty list of directories. it didn't go through recursively in every >> one and I am not sure what options I used at that time since it was long >> afterward discovered. Just want to get it right without experimenting ... >> > > The -a option includes -r (recursive). See the man page I referenced. > You can also do a dry run to check: > > --dry-run, -n perform a trial run with no changes made
For testing, the --verbose, -v option is very handy too. I often run `rsync -avn ...` to do a dry-run and check that the files/directories I expect to be transferred/updated are indeed included. The output can be sent to a file for later inspection, if that's easier than searching in the terminal. -- Todd
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