Dirk Heinrichs <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > > > The fastest method for copying directory trees (typicalls 30% faster than > > any other known method) is to use star: > > > > star -copy -p -xdot -acl -sparse -C <fromdir> . <todir> > > That's a really nice one. However, does it also handle the "update <todir>" > case mentioned above?
star by default only overwrites a file if it is older than the file that is going to be extracted. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
