If you used -v then the very last line rsync outputs is:
total size is ### speedup is ### (DRY RUN)
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, T. Shandelman via rsync wrote:
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:26:41 -0500
From: T. Shandelman via rsync <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Question/comment about -n (dry run) flag of rsync
Rsync is a remarkably handy tool that I use virtually every day.
But there is one thing about rsync that drives me totally crazy.
Under the -n (dry run) flag, rsync seems to produce exactly the same output
as without that flag.
I cannot tell you how many times I sit and scratch my head long and
hard,after I discover that my intended rsync operations did not actually
happen. Until I finally remember that I ran rsync in dry-run mode. That's
why! This is especially a problem for very long-running rsync jobs run in
dry-run mode.
It seems to me that when run in dry-run mode, rsync should display a
warning at the very, very end, something like:
*WARNING: None of the above operations have been actually performed, *
*because you ran rsync in dry-run mode.*
Or does rsync already have such a feature, and I am not aware of it?
But if not, that is my vote for the next feature to be added. It should be
a very, very easy fix.
Todd S.
Austin, Texas, USA
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