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Date:      Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:08:39 -0500
From:      "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   FBSD equivalent to Linux cp -u
Message-ID:  <000901c373fa$43007eb0$04fea8c0@moe>

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Hi,
I have read man cp, and I don't see a way to copy source file to
destination file *only* if source file is newer than destination file.

In Linux, I could do cp -u.  Is there another utility that can pull this
off?


Thanks,
Charles

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