-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It will work but why not just use diff -r ? Or a dedicated file validation utility like cfv?
Rsync isn't even smart enough to not bother checksumming things that don't even have a comparison file. On 12/20/2014 09:42 PM, eightfold ? wrote: > I want to use rsync to diff two folders (with checksum) by using > dry-run and itemize changes like this: rsync -rni --checksum /dir1/ > /dir2/> ~/Desktop/diff.log > > However, I read that in --dry-run rsync wont do checksums. Is this > true? If it is, is there a way to force checksums i dry-run mode? > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlSWNv4ACgkQVKC1jlbQAQflyACdH6f931vYWxy7xluW0cnnOfc0 TSIAn0A8P78vxSkTa9pJDwRAwmBYw1A+ =UfSG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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