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It depends what command arguments you give it, but by default the file will be overwritten with the older version.
I'd recommend looking into
--updateand--ignore-existingif you want to change that behavior to better suite your end goals. And test it out with-nwhich is a dry run for testing.Thanks - Looking at the man page, It looks like I would want --update in this case as it would cause the newer version to be present in both directories afterward.
I kind of figured that is what you were trying to do by your scenario but wasn't completely sure of it. That's right though, if you want to keep the most recent version of the file then
--updateshould do that for you. And you could write a simple script that does this each way, and schedule it to run however often. I saw your other comment now too, you might want to take a look into syncthing. Nothing against, rsync, I use it all the time for copying files but if this is something that you want to be continually synced then syncthing might be a better solution for you.After a session or two where I have perhaps only worked in A or B alone. I can manually trigger the shell script. Thanks for confirming tho.