What does mean => in “rsync --dry-run” output?

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I am using rsync -n for dry run to get the file list for the download. I wondered what does mean in the dry run out:

/somedir/somefile => someotherdir/somerotherfile

What is the "=>" symbol for ?

EDIT

I found it!!! It is a hard linked file. for more information: man rsyncd.conf

Sirex · Answer 1 · 2010-10-19 13:00:58Z

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its an arrow :) as in this is going to move from here ---> to there

answered Oct 19 '10 at 13:00

Sirex
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	No, it is a hard linked file :). for more information: man rsyncd.conf – Arman Oct 19 '10 at 13:12
	ill look this up when i get back to a nix machine, but im pretty sure on my machine i get that for every single file. oddness. – Sirex Oct 19 '10 at 13:44
	i looked this up. When i use rsync its part of a backup shell script, but the script actually ditches the rsync output to /dev/null and part of its own logged output is like [dir from] ===> [dir to]. doh ! ;p I'd better change that as it'll confuse in the future i expect. – Sirex Oct 20 '10 at 10:29

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