smart copy/update routine

[Ed Wright]

In article <1991Jan28.155450.24449 at cec1.wustl.edu> beard at informatics.wustl.edu writes:
%Is there such a thing available as unix source?  What I need is a
%program that can be told to copy files from source to target iff the
%file to be copied does not exist on the target or the source version
%is newer than the version in the target directory. 

make a timestamp file
run find on your your filesystem looking for files newer than timestamp
let the result of the find be an argument to tar as filename
and tar cBf - $filename | (cd /newplace;tar xpBf -)
When you're done touch timestamp

Then you're ready for next time.
Ed


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