Here is what I want to achieve:
Run Rsync to compare two directories recursively like this:
rsync -r /source /target
but don't actually rsync between the directories. I want the resulting differences to be rsyncd/copied to another 3. directory.
Any ideas?
I am using diff -r a b to recursively compare directories a and b. It often happens though that there are some broken links (the same broken links in both a and b directories and to the same, non-existing targets).
I'm trying to compare files on the root file system with a backup, and I'd like the comparison to work a bit like git or svn diff when a file has been added or removed - That is, display the full file diff. diff unfortunately just prints a No such file or directory message, which is not very useful.
Beginner/Intermediate shell; comfortable in the command line.
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uid = root
gid = root
use chroot = no
max connections = 4
pid file =
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