[feature-request] Adding a few new formatting options

[cipriancraciun]

(All these options can be implemented independently.)

A new option (like say %P, from "pointer"), that in case of symlinks or hardlinks it outputs only the pointed path. (Thus complementing the %n / %N in this case.) (high priority)

An option to print the inode number (say %I) (and possibly the containing device number, say %D), used for example to detect renames.

[miekg]

[ Quoting [email protected] in "[rdup] [feature-request] Adding a f..." ]

(All these options can be implemented independently.)

A new option (like say %P, from "pointer"), that in case of symlinks or hardlinks it outputs only the pointed path. (Thus complementing the %n / %N in this case.) (high priority)

What do you mean with high priority? (I do accept patches :) ), You can
also split the strings on ' -> ' when rdup outputs a 'l' or 'h' line.

An option to print the inode number (say %I) (and possibly the containing device number, say %D), used for example to detect renames.

Those are relative easy additions, but rdup should have detected these
renames already (there is a '-' line and a '+' for these renames)

• Grtz,

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  Miek Gieben

[cipriancraciun]

:) By "high priority" I meant "if it happens that you have time to choose any of these, I would suggest this one". It wasn't my intention to imply any "requirement". :) (I do understand how open-source works.)

About line splitting: I've done exactly that, i.e. sed after ->, however as I use a custom format string, I would have preferred using tab or something else, because -> might easily appear in a file name...

About the other inode option, I currently use (actually experiment with) rdup as a way to collect meta-data of a file-system and include it with besides the data itself, thus I always invoke it for a full backup. (Imagine putting all the files on a plain ISO stripped of any POSIX meta-data, with a .rdup file in the root that serves both to store meta-data and sums; or inside a ZIP file, or in S3, etc.)

[miekg]

Ah OK. Sounds like a very reasonable request.
On 27 May 2013 16:01, "Ciprian Dorin Craciun" [email protected]
wrote:

:) By "high priority" I meant "if it happens that you have time to choose
any of these, I would suggest this one". It wasn't my intention to imply
any "requirement". :) (I do understand how open-source works.)

About line splitting: I've done exactly that, i.e. sed after ->, however
as I use a custom format string, I would have preferred using tab or
something else, because -> might easily appear in a file name...

About the other inode option, I currently use (actually experiment with)
rdup as a way to collect meta-data of a file-system and include it with
besides the data itself, thus I always invoke it for a full backup.
(Imagine putting all the files on a plain ISO stripped of any POSIX
meta-data, with a .rdup file in the root that serves both to store
meta-data and sums; or inside a ZIP file, or in S3, etc.)

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