Commit 3b4ecc6b authored by Wayne Davison's avatar Wayne Davison

Document the new --human-readable (-m) option.

parent a7e60f0c
......@@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ to the detailed description below for a complete description. verb(
--port=PORT specify double-colon alternate port number
--blocking-io use blocking I/O for the remote shell
--stats give some file-transfer stats
-m, --human-readable output numbers in a human-readable format
--si like human-readable, but use powers of 1000
--progress show progress during transfer
-P same as --partial --progress
-i, --itemize-changes output a change-summary for all updates
......@@ -1226,6 +1228,13 @@ dit(bf(--stats)) This tells rsync to print a verbose set of statistics
on the file transfer, allowing you to tell how effective the rsync
algorithm is for your data.
dit(bf(-m, --human-readable)) Output numbers in a more human-readable format.
Large numbers may be output in larger units, with a K (1024), M (1024*1024),
or G (1024*1024*1024) suffix.
dit(bf(--si)) Similar to the bf(--human-readable) option, but using powers
of 1000 instead of 1024.
dit(bf(--partial)) By default, rsync will delete any partially
transferred file if the transfer is interrupted. In some circumstances
it is more desirable to keep partially transferred files. Using the
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