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From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>
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Subject: FBSD equivalent to Linux cp -u
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Hi,
I have read man cp, and I don't see a way to copy source file to
destination file *only* if source file is newer than destination file.

In Linux, I could do cp -u.  Is there another utility that can pull this
off?


Thanks,
Charles

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