r3c -- a wrapper of rsync

Motivation

I always have problem to remember the weired semantic difference between rsync -r dir1/ ... and rsync -r dir ....

Thus, I wrote this wrapper.

Usage

r3c dir1 dir2

will sync dir1 and dir2. That's it.

In some cases, if you do not care about unix features like permissions, links, etc, you can add a -simple option:

r3c -simple dir1 dir2

For rsync users:

• Without -simple, -a --partial --delete.
• With -simple, same as above, but using -r instead of -a.
• With -nodel, not passing the --delete option.
• With -compress, passing the -z option.
• With -progress, passing the --progress option.
• With -dry, just print out the generated rsync command line and exit.

Bugs

Since r3c uses the --sparse option of rsync for better support of sparse files, it will corrupt the files on a Solaris "tmpfs" destination. Please do not use r3c when the destination is on a Solaris "tmpfs" file system. If you do want to do so, please use r3c v0.0.0, which does not use the --sparse option.

Install

Compile from the source and install to /usr/local/bin:

make
make install

Depending on your file system permission configuration, you may need to prefix the make install command with sudo. Change PREFIX to install r3c to another directory. For example:

make PREFIX=~/.local install

The Makefile is compatible with both GNU and BSD make.

Uninstall

Just run:

make uninstall

If you have changed the PREFIX variable when installing, you need to use the same value when uninstalling. For example:

make PREFIX=~/.local uninstall

License

0BSD