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From: mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: smart copy/update routine
Message-ID: <MITCH.91Feb3170852@hq.af.mil>
Date: 3 Feb 91 22:08:52 GMT
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>%Is there such a thing available as unix source?  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. 

make(1) should be able to do this.

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