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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: smart copy/update routine
Message-ID: <1991Feb03.203626.17527@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 3 Feb 91 20:36:26 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.155450.24449@cec1.wustl.edu>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <1991Jan28.155450.24449@cec1.wustl.edu> beard@informatics.wustl.edu writes:
>What I need is a
>program that can be told to copy files from source to target iff the
>file to be copied does not exist on the target or the source version
>is newer than the version in the target directory. 

find source_dir -print |cpio -pdm target_dir

Cpio will not overwrite a newer file unless you use the -u option.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us