Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:00:37 -0500 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: BSD equivalent of GNU/Linux cp -rpu ? Message-ID: <76.DE.27130.5DB6D0F4@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>
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What is the BSD equivalent of Linux cp -rpu ? I tried that in FreeBSD, or maybe it was NetBSD, and -u was not recognized. I think the issue would be differences between GNU/Linux coreutils and util-linux and the BSD counterparts. the -u flag, for update, means not to copy files that exist in both the source and destination unless the source version is newer. Idea is to backup a directory, recursively, without copying old files that haven't changed. Would I use something like rsync or pax ? Tom
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