smart copy/update routine

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <1991Jan28.155450.24449 at cec1.wustl.edu> beard at informatics.wustl.edu writes:
>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. 

find source_dir -print |cpio -pdm target_dir

Cpio will not overwrite a newer file unless you use the -u option.

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us