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SYNC

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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NAME

sync - Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage

SYNOPSIS

sync [,OPTION/] [,FILE/]...

DESCRIPTION

Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage

If one or more files are specified, sync only them, or their containing file systems.

-d, --data: sync only file data, no unneeded metadata
-f, --file-system: sync the file systems that contain the files
--help: display this help and exit
--version: output version information and exit

BUGS

Persistence guarantees vary per system. See the system calls below for more details.

AUTHOR

Written by Jim Meyering and Giuseppe Scrivano.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sync translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.