Thanks, Heiko : in fact, I used "-n" when experimenting with my own parameters, but once I had Robin's I didn't think I'd need it ! ** Phil. -------- Heiko Oberdiek wrote: > rsync has an option --dry-run (or -n): > > | -n, --dry-run > | This tells rsync to not do any file transfers, > | instead it will just report the actions it would > | have taken. >