On Thu, 9 May 2013, Erik Anderson wrote: > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Here is something cool and useful that I do with find. Suppose I have >> a directory "foo" and that has a directory tree inside it with >> thousands of files. I want to copy it to some other machine, >> remote_host, and after it arrives, I want to check that it's all there >> and unchanged. > > > $ rsync <source> <dest> > > Will do essentially the same thing, minus all the manifest file > rigamarole... Do you mean that it checks the files during transmission and that it is impossible for it ever to fail? But how do you learn anything by doing it that way? ;-) More seriously, I sometimes have important collections of files (for my work) that I like to have the md5sums for. If a file is ever corrupted, I'll be able to tell because I keep that md5sum file. With rsync, is it possible for the process to be killed so that not all of the files are copied over? I still like the idea of confirming that the files were correctly copied. Mike