We all know this. We need to do a specific task and with the help of the internet we find a specific tool alongside command line parameters to do the job right from the shell.
What is a good way of collecting/documenting these snippets on your own for future reference and use? Just a text file in the home folder?
I don’t really have a guide or anything for it to hand, but essentially what that alias is doing is:
rsync= running rsync--ignore-existing= as you might have guessed, this tells rsync not to copy a file if it already exists at the destination.-rav= additional arguments. r = recursive, IE also copy subfolders. a = archive mode, preserves things like symlinks etc. and v = verbose, just tells you extra info about what’s going on.So with that alias, I can just type
rs [target folder] [destination folder]and it’ll copy it across exactly as it is, ignore anything that’s already there and tell me precisely what it’s doing.What if I added my own local server in dolphin? Can I use it’s path to sync a local (Linux) folder to the server?