mv and cp don't see this file, so they assume the sourcefile is newer than the not-existing destination file.
Steven
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 21:56, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 01 Jun 2003 8:44 pm, you wrote: > (I'm mailing directly to you because I'm afraid I'm asking a stupid > question now :-) ) > > how do you know it's copied or moved if they are both identical ? > I made one copy of each file to the backup file. After I had run the script I had a *.bak file for each and a corrrectly named one. There is, of course, no way I can prove that the correctly named one is new. Anne
