Re: cp command in linux issue

[Eric Blake]

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According to Patrick Chin on 11/22/2009 11:54 AM:
> I wish there was a way to just copy files that are missing without prompting. 
> Especially over a very slow connection, it would be more efficient to just do 
> an update rather than prompting and overwriting implicitly.
> 
> Does anyone know what that argument is?

As I already mentioned, try cp -un.  And if that doesn't do what you want,
then look into rsync.  For that matter, rsync is better for copying over
slow connections, because it uses compression to speed up the bottleneck
of transfer rates.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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