On other thought, you might try cp -durp
Check the man page for the meaning of the options, but the most important ones are -u for update and -r for recursive. I've never used this particular set of options before, so I strongly suggest you test this out and make sure it does what you want before you use it on important files. On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:48:32AM -0300, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Is there any simple Linux command that does the equivalent > to M$-DOS "xcopy <dir1>\<file1> <dir2> /F/D/S" ? > > I would like to copy a whole directory, including subdirectories, > but _not_ copy when the destination file is not older than > the source file. > > Alberto Monteiro > -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
