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prepend on Nov 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)

I’ve spent so much time with rsync’s -n (I think it supports —-dry-run as well).

stainforth on Nov 5, 2020 [–]

Shouldn't dry run be the default and the "prod" run be requiring adding the switch

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