Karl Behler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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to use cpio since this command has a built-in pipe. Just use:
cd source_dir; find . -depth -print| cpio -pdm dest_dir
Hi Karl,
I think the point of the original question was the capability to copy
only changed or new files across. If you attempt to duplicate 1GB of
files by making a fresh copy each day, you will be wastefully copying
many unchanged files.
I have seen several implementations of this only-copy-changed function
including track [1], mirdir [2], and sdir [3].
--
regards
paul http://acm.org/~mpb/homepage.html
References:
[1] track (an Athena tool) by Daniel Nachbar (man page dated april 1988)
[2] mirdir
file:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/1996/824296960
[3] sdir (Korn shellscript)
file:///afs/transarc.com/public/afs-contrib/tools/afs_install/sdir
ftp://ftp.transarc.com/pub/afs-contrib/tools/afs_install/sdir
