rsync - Feb 2012 - Just delete extraneous files, without updating other changes?

Hello all,

   I thought --recursive  and  --delete-before  might be an option and I can
quit rsync when it begins the updates, but the incremental recursive scanning is
disabled and this will certainly crash rsync as it was before moving to v3.x
(too many files).

   I have no experience with --write-batch but I wonder if it's safe/sane to
edit the resulting batch output file, or by doing a --dry-run | grep
"deleting" and fire that list thru rm.
   Other thoughts?


  Bryan

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You want --ignore-existing

On 02/16/12 20:36, Bryan Pliatsios wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I thought --recursive  and  --delete-before  might be an option and
> I can quit rsync when it begins the updates, but the incremental
> recursive scanning is disabled and this will certainly crash rsync
> as it was before moving to v3.x (too many files).
> 
> I have no experience with --write-batch but I wonder if it's
> safe/sane to edit the resulting batch output file, or by doing a
> --dry-run | grep "deleting" and fire that list thru rm. Other
> thoughts?
> 
> 
> Bryan
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