-q, --quiet suppress non-error messages
-c, --checksum skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size
-a, --archive archive mode; same as -rlptgoD (no -H)
+ --no-OPTION turn off an implied OPTION (e.g. --no-D)
-r, --recursive recurse into directories
-R, --relative use relative path names
- --no-relative turn off --relative
- --no-implied-dirs don't send implied dirs with -R
+ --no-implied-dirs don't send implied dirs with --relative
-b, --backup make backups (see --suffix & --backup-dir)
--backup-dir=DIR make backups into hierarchy based in DIR
--suffix=SUFFIX backup suffix (default ~ w/o --backup-dir)
-S, --sparse handle sparse files efficiently
-n, --dry-run show what would have been transferred
-W, --whole-file copy files whole (without rsync algorithm)
- --no-whole-file always use incremental rsync algorithm
-x, --one-file-system don't cross filesystem boundaries
-B, --block-size=SIZE force a fixed checksum block-size
-e, --rsh=COMMAND specify the remote shell to use
--address=ADDRESS bind address for outgoing socket to daemon
--port=PORT specify double-colon alternate port number
--blocking-io use blocking I/O for the remote shell
- --no-blocking-io turn off blocking I/O when it is default
--stats give some file-transfer stats
--progress show progress during transfer
-P same as --partial --progress
dit(bf(-a, --archive)) This is equivalent to bf(-rlptgoD). It is a quick
way of saying you want recursion and want to preserve almost
-everything. The only exception to this is if bf(--files-from) was
+everything (with -H being a notable omission).
+The only exception to the above equivalence is when bf(--files-from) is
specified, in which case bf(-r) is not implied.
Note that bf(-a) bf(does not preserve hardlinks), because
finding multiply-linked files is expensive. You must separately
specify bf(-H).
+dit(--no-OPTION) You may turn off one or more implied options by prefixing
+the option name with "no-". Not all options may be prefixed with a "no-":
+only options that are implied by other options (e.g. bf(--no-D),
+bf(--no-perms)) or have different defaults in various circumstances
+(e.g. bf(--no-whole-file), bf(--no-blocking-io), bf(--no-dirs)). You may
+specify either the short or the long option name after the "no-" prefix
+(e.g. bf(--no-R) is the same as bf(--no-relative)).
+
+For example: if you want to use bf(-a) (bf(--archive)) but don't want
+bf(-o) (bf(--owner)), instead of converting bf(-a) into bf(-rlptgD), you
+could specify bf(-a --no-o) (or bf(-a --no-owner)).
+
+The order of the options is important: if you specify bf(--no-r -a), the
+bf(-r) option would end up being turned on, the opposite of bf(-a --no-r).
+Note also that the side-effects of the bf(--files-from) option are NOT
+positional, as it affects the default state of several options and sligntly
+changes the meaning of bf(-a) (see the bf(--files-from) option for more
+details).
+
dit(bf(-r, --recursive)) This tells rsync to copy directories
recursively. See also bf(--dirs) (bf(-d)).
tt( remote:bar/baz.c /tmp/)
)
-dit(bf(--no-relative)) Turn off the bf(--relative) option. This is only
-needed if you want to use bf(--files-from) without its implied bf(--relative)
-file processing.
-
dit(bf(--no-implied-dirs)) When combined with the bf(--relative) option, the
implied directories in each path are not explicitly duplicated as part
of the transfer. This makes the transfer more optimal and also allows
unless the directory was specified on the command-line as either "." or a
name with a trailing slash (e.g. "foo/"). Without this option or the
bf(--recursive) option, rsync will skip all directories it encounters (and
-output a message to that effect for each one).
+output a message to that effect for each one). If you specify both
+bf(--dirs) and bf(--recursive), the latter takes precedence.
dit(bf(-l, --links)) When symlinks are encountered, recreate the
symlink on the destination.
"disk" is actually a networked filesystem). This is the default when both
the source and destination are specified as local paths.
-dit(bf(--no-whole-file)) Turn off bf(--whole-file), for use when it is the
-default.
-
dit(bf(-p, --perms)) This option causes rsync to set the destination
permissions to be the same as the source permissions.
quote(itemize(
it() The bf(--relative) (bf(-R)) option is implied, which preserves the path
information that is specified for each item in the file (use
- bf(--no-relative) if you want to turn that off).
+ bf(--no-relative) or bf(--no-R) if you want to turn that off).
it() The bf(--dirs) (bf(-d)) option is implied, which will create directories
specified in the list on the destination rather than noisily skipping
- them.
+ them (use bf(--no-dirs) or bf(--no-d) if you want to turn that off).
it() The bf(--archive) (bf(-a)) option's behavior does not imply bf(--recursive)
(bf(-r)), so specify it explicitly, if you want it.
+ it() These side-effects change the default state of rsync, so the position
+ of the bf(--files-from) option on the command-line has no bearing on how
+ other options are parsed (e.g. bf(-a) works the same before or after
+ bf(--files-from), as does bf(--no-R) and all other options).
))
The file names that are read from the FILE are all relative to the
blocking I/O, otherwise it defaults to using non-blocking I/O. (Note that
ssh prefers non-blocking I/O.)
-dit(bf(--no-blocking-io)) Turn off bf(--blocking-io), for use when it is the
-default.
-
dit(bf(-i, --itemize-changes)) Requests a simple itemized list of the
changes that are being made to each file, including attribute changes.
This is exactly the same as specifying bf(--log-format='%i %n%L').
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