Hallo, Debian users.
In `cp' man it is said:
-u, --update
copy only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination
file or when the destination file is missing
Now, it happens sometimes to me that, even with `-u', `cp' will copy the file
also when it isn't newer at all than the destination file, as here:
$ ls -lh ing.tex /mnt/pendrive2/ing.tex
-rw-r--r-- 1 rodolfo rodolfo 163K 2011-08-31 18:44 ing.tex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rodolfo rodolfo 163K 2011-08-31 18:44 /mnt/pendrive2/ing.tex
$ cp -viup ing.tex /mnt/pendrive2
cp: overwrite `/mnt/pendrive2/ing.tex'?
Why this, and how to avoid it?
Thanks for any help
Rodolfo
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
