Hallo, Debian users.
In `cp' man it is said:
-u, --update
copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination
file or when the destination file is missing
Now, it happens sometimes to me that, even with `-u', `cp' will copy the file
also when it isn't
On 2011-09-03 09:58 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
In `cp' man it is said:
-u, --update
copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination
file or when the destination file is missing
Now, it happens sometimes to me that, even with `-u', `cp' will
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
On 2011-09-03 09:58 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
[…]
Now, it happens sometimes to me that, even with `-u', `cp' will copy
the file also when it isn't newer at all than the destination file,
as here:
$ ls -lh ing.tex /mnt/pendrive2/ing.tex
Hello,
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Hallo, Debian users.
In `cp' man it is said:
-u, --update
copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination
file or when the destination file is missing
Why not use rsync for this?
Cheers
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Kind Regards
AndrewM
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