On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 12:36:23PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 01.11.2023 22:55, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies. > > > If I say tater instead of potato would it also make you sad? > Sorry to break it to you, but unicorns were extinct a long time ago, along > with BBS', modems, MSDOS, ISA-VLB slots, jumpers and through-hole ICs. > Only BGAs, UEFI, liquid metal, Bluetooth and other planned obsolescence > garbage remains. > > > You mean: the union of dest-dir-1 and dest-dir-2 should equal your > > source-dir? > > > > Try rsync -a source-dir/ dest-dir-2/ --compare-dest=dest-dir-1/ > > > > This one will even dutifully copy those files from source-dir which > > can't be found either in dest-dir-1 or in dest-dir-2. > > > > If you only want to /see/ what would be copied (always a good idea > > when trying untested advice from random folks on the internets :) > > there's the option --dry-run. Perhaps add the option -v. > > > > Rsync is magic. > > > > Cheers > Rsync wasn't helpful in my case. It refused to recognize file names > properly, complaining about charset encoding, not even with --iconv > parameters. > Probably because of locale differences between my system and mounted > filesystems and who knows what else. Difficult to say without knowing more details. Are those "directories" actually on different file systems? For vfat, specifically, there is a codepage argument for mount. Cheers -- t
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