Date: 05 Sep 2003 23:10:47 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD equivalent to Linux cp -u Message-ID: <44ad9i4nns.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <000901c373fa$43007eb0$04fea8c0@moe> References: <000901c373fa$43007eb0$04fea8c0@moe>
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"Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> writes:
> 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?
In sh(1), it should be as simple as:
if [ $sourcefile -nt $destinationfile ] ;
then
cp -p $sourcefile $destinationfile ;
fi
[untested]
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