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		gnosis on Feb 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes When doing stuff like this for the first time, I like to try it out on some test files before going for the real thing.

mryan on Feb 27, 2011 [–]

"rsync --dry-run src dest" will show you what rsync would do, without actually doing anything.

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