In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lucy Hou writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if I can use rsync as a diff tool only, not really
> copying files over to destination. I tried -n option, it doesn't seem to
> have done any content comparsion on the file(s), it merely list the file
> names.
Lucy,
check out the rdiff utility, distributed with librsync, which is available
at http://rproxy.sourceforge.net/download.html. It does exactly what you
describe to local files (i.e. no network transport is built in).
-- Alberto
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