Re: [cp v5.97] --noreply erroneously depreciated

[Chris Velevitch]

On Dec 21, 2007 12:51 AM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> What exactly are you trying to do?

I copying files (currently with the cp command) to a destination and
if there is an existing file at the destination, the destination file
is kept.

I currently use:-

      cp -r --reply=no source destination

> ...  rsync may be a better tool for your
> task, as it does have options to unconditionally keep destination files.

I thought rsync is meant for copying files between machines? In what
ways do you consider rsync to better? And isn't is a good idea to have
an unconditionally keep existing files option in cp? It did have it,
until it got depreciated.


Chris
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