From: Wayne Davison Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:34:31 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Fixed a word ending that Jesse Weinstein and revamp some of the text X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/rsync/rsync.git/commitdiff_plain/7f2591eaea2208c2bdc55eb66df3fd3734d45c96 Fixed a word ending that Jesse Weinstein and revamp some of the text to make it clearer. --- diff --git a/rsync.yo b/rsync.yo index 941f7a58..237d4d15 100644 --- a/rsync.yo +++ b/rsync.yo @@ -2859,27 +2859,26 @@ of the destination trees. The write-batch option causes the rsync client to store in a "batch file" all the information needed to repeat this operation against other, identical destination trees. -To apply the recorded changes to another destination tree, run rsync -with the read-batch option, specifying the name of the same batch -file, and the destination tree. Rsync updates the destination tree -using the information stored in the batch file. - -For convenience, one additional file is creating when the write-batch -option is used. This file's name is created by appending -".sh" to the batch filename. The .sh file contains -a command-line suitable for updating a destination tree using that -batch file. It can be executed using a Bourne (or Bourne-like) shell, -optionally -passing in an alternate destination tree pathname which is then used -instead of the original path. This is useful when the destination tree -path differs from the original destination tree path. - Generating the batch file once saves having to perform the file status, checksum, and data block generation more than once when updating multiple destination trees. Multicast transport protocols can be used to transfer the batch update files in parallel to many hosts at once, instead of sending the same data to every host individually. +To apply the recorded changes to another destination tree, run rsync +with the read-batch option, specifying the name of the same batch +file, and the destination tree. Rsync updates the destination tree +using the information stored in the batch file. + +For your convenience, a script file is also created when the write-batch +option is used: it will be named the same as the batch file with ".sh" +appended. This script file contains a command-line suitable for updating a +destination tree using the associated batch file. It can be executed using +a Bourne (or Bourne-like) shell, optionally passing in an alternate +destination tree pathname which is then used instead of the original +destination path. This is useful when the destination tree path on the +current host differs from the one used to create the batch file. + Examples: quote(