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From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 21:22:36 -0500
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Subject: Re: stupid cp(1) behaviour
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On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Matt Mullins <mokomull@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:28 AM, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> implement a new -N switch or so which isn't based on a file's existance, but a
>> file's checksum.
>
> You can always use net/rsync, which does by default compare checksums.

sysutils/cpdup also does this.

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