rsync - Sep 2004 - which files were newer and not transferred?

I almost always use "-u" with rsync so that I don't overwrite
remote
files that have changed.  The only way to get rsync to tell me which
remote files are "newer" is to use a double-v (-vv), which produces
way
more output than I care to see.  (In true Unix fashion, I don't care to
see what was done successfully; I only want to see what failed.)

I've always had to run the output of "rsync -uvv" through various
sed/egrep pipelines to remove the stuff I don't want.  (If I turn on
the --progress meter, the output gets really interesting to parse!)

I'd love to see a "show me which files did not get transferred because
they were newer" flag that means I can avoid parsing the huge -vv output.

If the maintainers agree, let me know and maybe I'll dig in to the code
to try to figure out a patch to make this possible (unless you get to
it first).

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On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:25:00AM -0400, Ian! D. Allen
wrote:
> The only way to get rsync to tell me which remote files are
"newer" is
> to use a double-v (-vv), which produces way more output than I care to
> see.
The solution is a more flexible set of options for --log-format.  This is
something that J.W. had discussed before, and that Christophe Kalt was
recently talking about working on.  If it were improved appropriately,
we could have it output about the files that got skipped due to being
more recent than the source file.

..wayne..