On 15/06/10 12:44, Alan Chandler wrote:

The real magic command is "cp -alf" which essentially merges a shorter
term store with a longer term one, making new entries where the shorter
store has a file that isn't in the longer term store, and overwriting it
where the shorter term store has a file with the same name as the longer
one.

I should have added, it does this virtually instantaneously because it is not moving anything, just dealing with hard links.

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Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk


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