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2 .TH SYNC "1" "January 2016" "GNU coreutils 8.25" "User Commands"
4 sync \- Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage
7 [\fI\,OPTION\/\fR] [\fI\,FILE\/\fR]...
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11 Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage
13 If one or more files are specified, sync only them,
14 or their containing file systems.
16 \fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-data\fR
17 sync only file data, no unneeded metadata
19 \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-file\-system\fR
20 sync the file systems that contain the files
23 display this help and exit
26 output version information and exit
28 Persistence guarantees vary per system.
29 See the system calls below for more details.
31 Written by Jim Meyering and Giuseppe Scrivano.
33 GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
35 Report sync translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
37 Copyright \(co 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
38 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
40 This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
41 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
43 fdatasync(2), fsync(2), sync(2), syncfs(2)
46 Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sync>
48 or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) sync invocation\(aq