Re: About the `-u' option of `cp' command

To: Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: About the `-u' option of `cp' command
From: Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 19:17:15 +1000
Message-id: <[🔎] 4E61F09B.2040907@affinityvision.com.au>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 87ehzyukew.fsf@gmail.com>
References: <[🔎] 87ehzyukew.fsf@gmail.com>

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

Andrew McGlashan
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