Sebastian Arcus wrote (Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:18 PM): > Reading the manual page: "This tells rsync not to delete more than NUM > files or directories." Also, according to docs, rsync exits with code 25 > if max-delete has been reached. Now, rsync starts with the deletes by > default, and then it does updates. > > My question is, if --max-delete has been reached, does rsync still > proceed with the updates (not the deletes), or just exists immediately > with code 25 without doing any updates? The man page doesn't specify > either way, and looking at online posts, it would seem to suggest it > exits as soon as max-delete has been reached.
>From trying, I'd say it continues with updating (for whatever case that would make sense ...): $ mkdir a b $ touch a/a b/b $ rsync -aix --delete --max-delete=0 a/. b/. >f+++++++++ a Deletions stopped due to --max-delete limit (1 skipped) rsync error: the --max-delete limit stopped deletions (code 25) at main.c(1052) [sender=3.0.9] $ echo $? 25 $ ls b/* b/a b/b Have a nice day, Berny -- 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
