Re: Replacement for cp -i --reply=no ?

[Andreas Schwab]

Jerry Peek <address@hidden> writes:

> I searched around gnu.org, and searched this list back to the start of
> 2006, for info on why cp --reply is deprecated (and will be removed in
> 2008).  Sorry if this has been asked before... but what's the replacement
> for cp -i --reply=no ?

IMHO the best replacement is rsync.

>  I use it, for instance, when I'd started a long-running recursive
> directory copy that was interrupted in the middle and I want to
> re-start cp to finish the job.  Using --reply=no tells cp not to
> overwrite existing files; it saves a lot of useless re-copying.

cp -u does that as well.

Andreas.

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