On 10.10.2009 13:33, Andrew Gideon wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:22:11 -0400, Sam wrote: > > > As far as I know it's still there > > That's what I thought. So what is the point behind --target-dir? > > Sorry for the puzzlement...
Performance. It makes a tremendous difference if you have to fork/exec one program per file for, say, 100,000 files. Or (-t here) about 10 instances doing 10,000 files. If you only do something for a few files, like 100 or so, just type the one thats easier to type. When you do something with thousands or millions of files reducing fork/exec-load will make a huge difference perfomance wise. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. -- 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
