except it is not guaranteed to be on a machine

I will go for an horrible:

yes n | cp -i src/ dst/ 2>&1 | grep -v ' overwrite '

Thanks!
-A

On 8/26/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> alessandro salvatori wrote:
> > My case is the exact opposite of what you are talking about.
> > Irrespectively of the original files, i want to keep the existing files
> at
> > the destination, even if older.
>
> In that case Eric's suggestion of rsync --ignore-existing is perfect
> then.
>
> Bob
>



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