Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Dec 24, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:

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> Hi,
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> I have two folders, say .../source/ and .../destination/.
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> There are many files in /source/ and in /destination/. There are some
> more files in /source/. There are so many files in /source/ that I
> cannot check the ones that are not in /destination/ by myself.
> I want the files of /source/ which are not in /destination/ to be
> copied in /destination/. Using cp -i is not a good idea, as there
> could be something like ~5000 files which are not in /destination/,
> but which are in /source/.

Take a look at "man rsync"  It should do exactly what you want.

Rick