Unison is a powerful file synchronization tool designed for Unix-like operating systems. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Unison on Manjaro, a popular Linux distribution based on Arch Linux.
Before we start, make sure that your Manjaro system is up-to-date. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
Unison is available in the official Manjaro repository. Therefore, you can easily install it using the pacman package manager.
To install Unison, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo pacman -S unison
This command will download and install Unison and all required dependencies.
Once Unison is installed, you can start using it. Unison has a command-line interface, and it works by comparing and synchronizing files and directories between two locations.
To start using Unison, open a terminal and run the following command:
unison
This will display the basic usage of Unison with a list of available options.
For example, to synchronize two directories or files, use the following command format:
unison /path/to/dir1 /path/to/dir2
This command will compare and synchronize the contents of dir1 with dir2 and vice versa.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Unison on Manjaro and how to use it to synchronize files and directories between two locations. Unison is a flexible tool that can be used to automate many tasks, and it is widely used by system administrators and developers.
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