"Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have read man cp, and I don't see a way to copy source file to
> destination file *only* if source file is newer than destination file.
>
> In Linux, I could do cp -u. Is there another utility that can pull this
> off?
In sh(1), it should be as simple as:
if [ $sourcefile -nt $destinationfile ] ;
then
cp -p $sourcefile $destinationfile ;
fi
[untested]
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