This is not a bug.
** Changed in: rsync (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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-n option does not report what would have been transferred
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249164
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ubun
This isn't a bug, it is the rsync behavior. rsync silenty transfers your
data unless you use the verbose flag.
With the verbose flag as above will do as you wish:
$ rsync -rn src/ dst -nv
sending incremental file list
foo
sent 39 bytes received 15 bytes 108.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedu
