Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinri...@online.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
>
> > The fastest method for copying directory trees (typicalls 30% faster than
> > any other known method) is to use star:
> >
> > star -copy -p -xdot -acl -sparse -C <fromdir> . <todir>
>
> That's a really nice one. However, does it also handle the "update <todir>"
> case mentioned above?
star by default only overwrites a file if it is older than the file that is
going to be extracted.
Jörg
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