Re: cp -u

[Markku A. Mähönen]

2008/6/14 Philip Rowlands <address@hidden>:

>
> You might find rsync to be a better tool for this task. It's more robust
> against partial-copy failures, and has the nice property that copied files
> will all carry the same mtime, whereas cp -u will not attempt to replicate
> timestamps (from a cursory check).
>

Ok, rsync might be better for this task (it seems to be quite a cpu hog
though). But if you forget that, imho the 'cp -u' does not work as it
should, so it is a bug.

Cheers,

Markku