Re: rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ
On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 at 16:24, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 12:43:51 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > Em 19/01/2025 08:57, David escreveu:
> > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2025 at 02:51, Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > time sudo rsync -aHSxvvv --human-readable --delete --numeric-ids --
> > > > info=progress2,stats2,name2 --
> > > > exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media
> > > > /*","/lost+found"} /media/user/DRIVE1/ /media/user/DRIVE2/ ; date
> > > In fact the manpage says: "--exclude options take one rule/pattern each",
> > > as I have shown above, which is not what you have.
> > That's a shell feature, it will expand to multiple --exclude options.
> It's called brace expansion, if you're looking for it in the bash manual.
Oh right, thanks for the clarification.
I would have recognised this
echo a{1..5}b
as brace expansion, but I hadn't absorbed the extra glorious
capabilities of its commas.
Maybe the shame of being wrong on the internet will help me
remember. Except I will probably forget that too :)
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