digits. Rsync no longer doubles a backslash character in a filename
(e.g. it used to output "foo\\bar" when copying "foo\bar") -- now it only
escapes a backslash that is followed by a hash-sign and 3 digits (0-9)
- (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789").
+ (e.g. it will output "foo\#134#789" when copying "foo\#789"). See also
+ the --8-bit (-8) option, mentioned below.
Script writers: the local rsync is the one that outputs escaped names,
so if you need to support unescaping of filenames for older rsyncs, I'd
allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples of 1024)
and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
- - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
+ - Added the --8-bit (-8) option, which tells rsync to avoid escaping high-
+ bit characters that it thinks are unreadable in the current locale.
+
+ - The new options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
--stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
- If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the