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Re: parallel does not preserve symlinked directory structure on remote
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Ole Tange |
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Re: parallel does not preserve symlinked directory structure on remote |
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Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:48:24 +0200 |
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Benjamin Leutner
<benjamin.leutner@uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
> adding the -K flag (=treat symlinked dir on receiver as dir) to the rsync
> call in rsync_transfer_cmd() would solve this issue.
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> some scenarios (following my initial example) for what would happen on the
> remote machine:
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> wd is a valid softlink: -> no action
> wd is a directory: -> no action
> wd is a broken softlink: -> directory wd is created
> wd is missing: -> directory wd is created
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> Could you add this to parallel?
> It is a slight change of behavior compared to previous versions, but I can't
> imagine a scenario where it would do harm.
My worry would be if old rsync do not support -K. In that case GNU
Parallel would be incompatible with old versions. But it seems -K was
supported back to before version 2.0.0, so that is not an issue.
Fixed in Git.
/Ole