--- On Fri, 12/25/09, Girish Kulkarni <gir...@athene.org.in> wrote: > From: Girish Kulkarni <gir...@athene.org.in> > Subject: Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination > To: "Debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Date: Friday, December 25, 2009, 5:41 AM > On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Brad Rogers > wrote: > >> 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/. > > > > cp -n does that. > > Wonder if I'm missing something, but `cp -n' on Lenny gives > me this: > > gir...@marvin:~$ cp -n -r foo /tmp > cp: invalid option -- n > Try `cp --help' for more information. > > Girish. >
Probably meant cp -u the u means update, so that cp only copies the file if either it doesn't already exist in /destination or if the file of that name in /source is newer than the one in /destination. Pretty well rsync can do the same thing. /tony -- http://www.baldwinlinguas.com translations & interpreting http://www.baldwinsoftware.com tcl yer os with a feather -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
