Can scp be used to update a directory?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Mar 18 17:46:56 UTC 2006


On Saturday 18 March 2006 17:36, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Oops - I think I've just made a terrible mistake.  I rsync'd my home
> > directory, forgetting that it would take the hidden files and config
> > files with it.  Now I'll have to see what damage is done.
> >
> > Anne
>
> This reminded me of another option that is very useful , specially when
> you use --delete: --dry-run.. It will only show what would be done when
> running the sync and wont execute it for real. Excellent for checking if
> you didn't do any wrong exclude.
>
That sounds very useful indeed ;-)  Thanks

Anne
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