Get list of transferred files from rsync

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I'm currently using rsync on a script that deploys a PHP application from a staging to a production server. Here is how:

rsync -rzai --progress --stats --ignore-times --checksum /tmp/app_export/ root@app.com:/var/www/html/app/

This is currently outputting a list of every file that's being compared (every file in the project), but I'd like it to output only the modified ones, so I can run it with a --dry-run option to check that every deploy is updating only the desired files.

NOTE: The best I could do so far is grep fcst the results, but I'm looking for an rsync option that I'm sure it's there but I can't find it in the man pages.

Thanks in advance!

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If there's an rsync option to do exactly what you're asking, I didn't find it in the manpage either. :-)

That said, I don't see the problem with grepping the output of rsync -i to parse out exactly what you need. That feels nice and Unixy to me.

One nit-picky quibble with your rsync command: the -r is redundant, as it is implied by -a.

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I would use rsync as it means that if it is interrupted for any reason, then you can restart it easily with very little cost. And being rsync, it can even restart part way through a large file. As others mention, it can exclude files easily. The simplest way to preserve most things is to use the -a flag – ‘archive.’ So:

rsync -a source dest

Although UID/GID and symlinks are preserved by -a (see -lpgo), your question implies you might want a full copy of the filesystem information; and -a doesn't include hard-links, extended attributes, or ACLs (on Linux) or the above nor resource forks (on OS X.) Thus, for a robust copy of a filesystem, you'll need to include those flags:

rsync -aHAX source dest # Linux
rsync -aHE source dest  # OS X

The default cp will start again, though the -u flag will "copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing". And the -a (archive) flag will be recursive, not recopy files if you have to restart and preserve permissions. So:

cp -au source dest

Rsync -c -i flags identical files as different

Since "-a" is equivalent to "-rlptgoD" then yes it's still looking at mod times (the "-t").

Try replacing the "-a" with "-rlpgoD" and see how that goes.

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Rsync -c -i flags identical files as different

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