Re: Replacement for cp -i --reply=no ?

[Jerry Peek]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jerry Peek <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Using --reply=no tells cp not to
> > overwrite existing files; it saves a lot of useless re-copying.
>
> cp -u does that as well.

Thanks, Andreas.  I think cp -u will take care of everything that I used 
to do with cp -i --reply=no.

(Good point about rsync, though -- I tend to think of it only for 
copying to remote archives, but it's good on a local host too.)

Jerry