Well, at least in the version herein, you misspelled "metadata" in both
the `echo` statement, and in the timestamp test.
-Matt Stegman
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On Wed, 10 May 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
> Why is this failing?
>
> I want to test two files, source and target. If the target does not exist,
> or the target does exist but is older than the source, I want to copy the
> source to the target.
>
> If the target does not exist, the file is copied. If the source is newer,
> no copy occurs.
>
> The code is:
>
>
> if [ /etc/fstab -nt $metatada/fstab ] || [ ! -f $metadata/fstab ] ; then
> echo "Copying $metatada/fstab in from /etc."
> cp /etc/fstab $metadata;
> fi
>
>
> ccurley@charlesc $ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 2.03.16(1)-release (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu)
> Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
>
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