Hi,

Hendrik Boom writes:

> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 06:05:39PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
>> Hendrik Boom writes:
>>
>> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 12:39:11PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
>> >> Is there a reason not to use `rsync -n` ?
>> >
>> > Ahhh... That's what -n is for. I missed it looking through the man page.
>>
>> And if you want to see the differences, you may be interested in rdiff.
>> Haven't used it myself but sound (and looks) like it fits your bill.
>
> That's just what I thought... but the man page I have for rdiff says nothing
> about how to compare files between systems... Could it be that the man page
> s defective?

At the very least not particularly helpful. Just spent five minutes
trying to get it do something halfway useful. No such luck. The -h
output is not much better than the manual page :-(

Sorry for wasting your time.

> Or should I lodge a bug report against the man page?

That might help,
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