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Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
On many Unix-based operating systems, rsync is a command line tool for transferring and synchronizing files on a computer, either between storage attached directly to the computer or between anothe…
While Apple has been updating the rsync 2.6.9 command line tool it shipped with macOS as needed in response to security issues and other problems, the fact remains that Apple’s version of rsync up until macOS Sequoia was almost twenty years old and did not include any of the new features introduced in rsync versions which came after version 2.6.9. The openrsync command line tool is compatible with rsync, but as noted in the documentation openrsync accepts only a subset of rsync’s command line arguments. For more information about what functionality is supported in the openrsync command line tool on macOS Sequoia, please see the link below:
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