Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 07:00:48 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com Subject: RE: FBSD equivalent to Linux cp -u Message-ID: <000c01c3746e$832b8d80$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <44ad9i4nns.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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> > 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? > > In sh(1), it should be as simple as: > > if [ $sourcefile -nt $destinationfile ] ; > then > cp -p $sourcefile $destinationfile ; > fi > > [untested] Thanks, Lowell. Once again I've had an attack of the dumb-ass! :-)
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