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