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Your "piped tar" doesn't cover the main use case of rsync, which is (unsurprisingly), remote file hierarchy sync'ing. In particular, when there's a hierarchy o
by mturmon 7y ago
Your "piped tar" doesn't cover the main use case of rsync, which is (unsurprisingly), remote file hierarchy sync'ing.
In particular, when there's a hierarchy on a remote machine that I want to sync to a partially-up-to-date hierarchy on a local machine, the required rsync command is a one-liner and it's very fast because it uses a diff.
Incidentally, the "tar" man page is not exactly a model of simplicity itself.
- klodolph 7y ago> Your "piped tar" doesn't cover the main use case of rsync, which is (unsurprisingly), remote file hierarchy sync'ing. That's exactly my point, isn't it? rsync does several different things, depending on how you invoke it, rather than being a UNIXy tool that does one thing well. Because the single tool does everything, you can't easily swap out different parts of it, and the single tool takes a hundred options.
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