Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 05:27:46PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:20:20PM EST, Merciadri Luca wrote:
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> > John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> writes:
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> > > BTW they are directories, not "folders".
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> > Sorry, English is not my mother tongue. Does it appear so artificial?
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> > Sorry.
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> Maybe the distinction is not a matter of whatever mother tongue forced
> upong us, but rather a difference in terminology between *nixspeak and
> MacWindowsSpeak?
>
> In any case, in the context of your query, which is an operation that
> involves components of a file system, the technical term directory
> appears to be more appropriate than the vague icon-inspired term folder.
And a directory is?
Isn't it the D in an LDAP server?
What's a file to do with a directory?
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