On 24/01/2013 3:08 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
The -7 option to man made no difference to the number of lines reported in my test.
No, but the plain text format _might_ be more useful and the output can be easily viewed and searched using your favourite text editor.
I'm using Debian/Wheezy with rsync 3.0.9. I guess you have an older version.
I am using Debian stable, so my version will be different. - actually 3.0.7
$ man rsync | wc -w 24206
Don't forget about the less verbose and usually more easily digestible option that I mentioned. rsync --help The word count if that interests you (even though my version is different to yours) rsync --help|wc -w 975 And the line count is still 144, even though I had a typo in my earlier email. Cheers A.