On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Craig White wrote:
> Man cp on OSX didn't give me any clues about an 'update' option
>
> Clues?
Use cpio or tar or pax.
cpio's normal behaviour is to not replace newer files with older files.
Some pax implementations have an -u option ("Ignore files that are older
than a pre-existing file").
And some versions of tar have an -u switch too for updating.
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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