[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unfortunately, after a new system installation, I just today > discovered, that the --reply=foo option in cp has been deprecated > and is going to be removed.
Yes. It didn't do what people thought it did. It was possible to have silent data loss. > I often want to do "cp dir1/* dir2", but protect the files already > existing in dir2 from being overwritten by the older files from > dir1. I could use "-u", but I often deal with files, on whose > timestamps I cannot safely rely on. How to do this without "-i > --reply=no"? Or is there anything I overlooked? Hope not. Use rsync for this functionality. $ rsync -a --ignore-existing file1 file2 See this reference for more information: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#cp-and-mv-the-reply-option-is-deprecated Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
