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UWA week 40 (2nd semester, week 10) ↓

the -n flag (all 4)

5:06am Wed 4th Oct, Christopher M.

"Nicholas Mulyawan" <23*4*7*4@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote:

> I understand that the -n option asks for what files I want to copy so I'm assuming the specified files only move from one directory to the another in a one-sided manner..?

Hi Nicholas, You have a misunderstanding here. Requesting -n does not "ask" for anything (there's nothing interactive about the mysync program once it has started). Providing the -n option requests that everything occurs in the standard way, except that files are not actually copied/synced. There's an equivalent option for the standard make utility: -n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon Print the commands that would be executed, but do not execute them. The files to be synched between 2 (or more directories) can be copied in each direction. If you think of each top-level directory has a 'set' of files, the final result of synching is that the 'union' of all files exist in each top-level directory.