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From: | Jerry Peek |
Subject: | Re: Replacement for cp -i --reply=no ? |
Date: | Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:24:08 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) |
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
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