Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

[Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] <abhishek.amberkar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
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> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:32:08 +0100
> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
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> Hello Merciadri,
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>> 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/.
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> cp -n does that.
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There is no such option "-n" to "cp" as per the manual page on Debian Lenny.
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