Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 06:50:31 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Equivalence to cp -Ru Message-ID: <823132.45568.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <20131206195618.899fe8b4e89177f1bd331344@gmail.com> <20131206222407.8468245b.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 19:56:18 +0100, Daniel Patón wrote: > In Linux I used the following command in bash on an external USB disk: > cp -Ru * /media/BACKUP > Now in FreeBSD with csh the command cp is a little different. I asked about the same question some months ago, having used cp -Rpu in Linux (p preserves permissions). Best answer I got then was rsync. I see Polytropon's suggestion, cpdup, is much smaller. I find cpdup in FreeBSD ports but not NetBSD pkgsrc. Tom
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